(30 January) ‘What climate is – or should be – normal?’ … my new post over at The Merton Stone, the blog of the 3S Group here at UEA. Does it matter that we have a proliforation of baseline climates from which deviations are calculated?
Month: January 2013
Environmental Politics: Scale and Power
(25 January) Read my review of Shannon O’Lear’s book Environmental Politics: Scale and Power, prepared for the current issue (2(3)) of the journal Dialogues in Human Geography. I conclude my review thus: “It is one thing to promote a critical reflexivity about the environment – which is something Environmental Politics: Scale and Power does very well. […]
How models gain and exercise authority
(25 November) NEW Publication: My chapter ‘How climate models gain and exercise authority’ is newly published Routledge book edited by Kirsten Hastrup and Martin Skrydstrup ‘The social life of climate change models: anticipating nature’. The chapter is a written-up version of my talk in September 2010 to the Cambridge CRASSH meeting ‘Challenging models in the face of uncertainty’.
Paying more attention to uncertainties
(16 January) ‘Paying more attention to uncertainties’. See my new post over at The Merton Stone, the blog of the 3S Group here at UEA. I ask the question: have climate researchers paid more attention to ‘uncertainties’ in their work since Climategate? The answer is ‘yes’.
Major publications 2012
Hastrup,K., Schaffer,S., Kennel,C.F., Sneath,D., Bravo,M., Diemberger,H., Graf,H-F., Hobbs,J., Davs,J., Nodari,L., Vassena,G., Irvine,R., Evans,C., Strathern,M., Hulme,M., Kaser,G. and Bodenhorn,B. (2012) Communicating climate knowledge: proxies, processes, politics Current Anthropology 53(2), 226-244 Hulme,M. (2012) ‘Telling a different tale’: literary, historical and meteorological reading of a Norfolk heatwave Climatic Change 113(1), 5-21 Hulme,M. (2012) Climate change: Climate engineering […]
