(28 May) ‘The climate change debates’. The journal Science has commissioned a review essay by philosopher of science Philip Kitcher in which he assesses the arguments put forward in a number of recent books about climate change, including Why We Disagree About Climate Change. There is an on-line forum to discuss the issues raised, including this comment from […]
Month: May 2010
Response to Philip Kitcher
(28 May) In Philip Kitcher’s wide-ranging essay in Science on ‘The Climate Change Debates’ I am struck by two things – which are not very new, but which are very important. First, is how the framing and public discourse around climate change differs between countries: as Kitcher puts it, where ‘societies … are inclined to see […]
What does ‘the science demand’?
(24 May ) Read here at Spiked on-line an interview with Mike Hulme – ‘We must stop saying ‘the science demands …’
Cosmopolitan climates
NEW Publication (25 May) Cosmopolitan climates: hybridity, foresight and meaning Theory Culture & Society 27(2/3), 267-276 (part of a special issue on ‘Changing Climates’)
A new direction for climate policy
(11 May) Re-thinking climate change. I am one of 14 authors of The Hartwell Paper, published today (and here in Chinese), which outlines a new direction for climate policy following the crash of 2009. See my editorial in the BBC Green Room, Richard Black’s commentary on it, and also The Economist. I have published a separate essay […]
