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.
On the BBC Radio 4 Today programme
(28 April 2009) Mike Hulme discusses his new book ‘Why we disagree about climate change’ on the BBC Radio 4 Today Programme
Major Publications 2008
Hulme,M. and Dessai,S. (2008) Predicting, deciding, learning: can one evaluate the ‘success’ of national climate scenarios? Environmental Research Letters 3(4), 7pp. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/3/4/045013 Hulme,M. (2008) To what climate are we adapting? ECOS 29(3/4), 80-85 Dessai,S. and Hulme,M. (2008) How do UK climate scenarios compare with recent observations? Atmospheric Science Letters doi: 10.1002/asl.197 O’Neill,S.J., Osborn,T.J., Hulme,M., Lorenzoni,I. and […]
Articles, Reviews, Talks
Book review of ‘Ten technologies to save the planet’ by Chris Goodall, in Third Way, March 2009, p.38 To what climate are we adapting? ECOS: A review of Conservation 29(3/4), 80-85 (Dec 2008) Amid the financial storm: redirecting climate change Read this viewpoint article on the openDemocracy web site (31 Oct 2008) To what climate are […]
