(27 August) Listen to my contributions as BBC’s environment correspondent Richard Black investigates if climate change is diverting attention away from other environmental problems such as air pollution, acid oceans and species extinction. A summary of the argument can be found here.
Interviews and reviews of Why We Disagree About Climate Change
(September) Review by Tony Allan published in People and Science (17 July) Review by Joseph Bast at American Thinker (16 July) Review by Max Boykoff published by Nature Reports Climate Change (11 July) Blogged by Roger Pielke jr at his personal blog (20 June) Review on celsias website Why we disagree about climate change (29 May) […]
Corrections and apologies
(16 July) On p.233 of Why We disagree About Climate Change, in Box 7.1, I make the statement “Risbey goes on to accuse those who do not adopt such urgent language in their descriptions of the science as failing in their civic duty in inform the public, a ‘scientific reticence’ which falls short of the […]
About the book
Why we disagree about climate change: understanding controversy, inaction and opportunity was been published by Cambridge University Press in April 2009, rrp. paperback £15.99, hardback £45. Synopsis of Why we disagree about climate change … Climate change is not a problem waiting for a solution. It is an environmental, cultural and political phenomenon which is re-shaping the way […]
‘Believing is seeing’
NERC’s magazine Planet Earth posted this story – ‘More evidence doesn’t change minds’ – based on my recent article with Irene Lorenzoni in Public Understanding of Science.
Letter in Science on the Copenhagen Climate Congress
NEW Publication (15 May 2009) Hulme,M., Boykoff,M., Gupta,J., Heyd,T., Jaeger,J., Jamieson,D., Lemos,M.C., O’Brien,K., Roberts,T., Rockstrom,J. and Vogel,C. (2009) Conference covered climate from all angles Science 324, 881-882
ADAM project delivers its key findings
The EU-funded ADAM project (Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies: Supporting European Climate Policy) which I have been coordinating delivered its key findings at a final policy conference, in Brussels from 12-14 May 2009. The ADAM final report – Hulme,M., Neufeldt,H. and Colyer,H. (eds.) (2009) Adaptation and mitigation strategies: supporting European climate policy. The final report from the ADAM project. […]
On The Guardian’s Science Weekly podcast
(11 May 2009) Listen to this Science Weekly podcast at The Guardian newspaper: What is it about the science and politics of climate change that so raises some people’s hackles? Mike Hulme, a climate scientist and author at the University of East Anglia and a founding director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, is […]
‘Don’t use science to get round politics’
An interview with The Register about the relationship between knowledge, politics and climate change.
Exeter University seminar
(29 April 2009) Listen and view Mike Hulme’s seminar ‘Why We Disagree About Climate Change’ at the School of Geography, University of Exeter, 29 April 2009.
