Foreword by Matt Nisbet 1. The public life of climate change: the first twenty-five years 2. Science 3. Researching 4. Culture 5. Policy 6. Policy 7. Communicating 8. Futures 9. Reactions to Why We Disagree About Climate Change
Mike Hulme is Professor of Climate and Culture at King’s College London, UK, having previously worked for 25 years at the University of East Anglia, UK. He established the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and was its Founding Director from 2000–2007.
Hulme (King's College London, UK), arguably the leading authority
on climate science, provides a comprehensive treatment of cultural
contexts and physical phenomena...Climate change skeptics and true
believers alike should find the historical perspective enlightening
and fascinating. Summing Up: Highly recommended. –R. A. Delgado
Jr., American Association/or the Advancement of Science, CHOICEI
doubt that anyone on Earth can match Mike Hulme's deep
understanding of both the scientific and social aspects of climate
change. Yet of course what really matters, and what is so clearly
on display in this volume, is the way he combines, with a
sensibility that is at once rigorous and enormously generous, these
two knowledge domains to provide insight and, indeed, wisdom into
the true and many meanings of climate change.–Dan Sarewitz, Arizona
State University, USA Here is a climatologist who has come to know
that his discipline provides woefully poor impetus for political
action. Whatever the prospects of averting the worst impacts of
climate change, Mike Hulme is right: any proportional response must
flow from deep reflection on who we are as humans, and what shapes
us thus.– Tom Crompton, Change Strategist, WWF-UKClimate change was
first an issue of climate science. But climate change is now mostly
a political process, which needs recognition of its diverse
cultural dimensions. Mike Hulme allows us to follow this
development by presenting himself as an involved person, who has
learned that climate change is not a matter of preaching the truth
but of us deciding how we want to live.– Hans von Storch, Director
of Institute for Coastal Research, Geesthacht, GermanyMike Hulme’s
work is especially valuable because it crosses disciplines; in no
field can this intellectual broadness be more essential than in the
complex and bitterly contested field of climate change. His
background as a physical scientist gives special weight to his
insights on climate change as an evolving cultural narrative.
Anyone with an interest in climate should read this book, and read
it with a mind as open as Hulme’s has always been.– Mark Lynas,
environmentalist and author, UKMike Hulme is reflective,
scientifically precise and dispassionate. This engaging collection
traces the 25-year trajectory of the writings of a fine public
intellectual, as science and society become deeply entwined from
climate science in the greenhouse summer of 1988 through to the era
of the Anthropocene.– Libby Robin, Australian National University,
Australia and KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory, SwedenThis
is a fascinating collection of articles, providing a unique window
on the inside world of climate change. Mike Hulme has done it all -
the research, the institutions, the reflection, and the public
speeches. Through his eyes, the co-evolution of climate change
science and society unfolds, as it moved from the 20th Century into
the 21st.– Corinne Le Quere, Director, Tyndall Centre for Climate
Change Research, UKThis book offers unique insights into the many
facets of climate change from one of the leading voices in the
field. Mike Hulme’s commentaries, interviews, book reviews and
speeches are a must read for anyone interested in the development
of this important issue.– Reiner Grundmann, University of
Nottingham, UK
This collection of articles brings together the innovative and
always thought-provoking contributions and ideas that Mike Hulme
brings to the debates on climate change. It represents a
comprehensive collection that is honest and informative about a
wide array of debates from climate science to policy to art. For
those that appreciate Mike Hulme’s interventions, this book is a
real collector’s item. For those less familiar, this is an
excellent introduction to the extraordinary range of one of the
world’s leading thinkers on climate change.– Samuel Randalls,
University College London, UKThis collection of work by one of the
world’s leading authors on climate change, represents essential,
engaging and enlightening reading on this most topical of social
and environmental, global and local concerns. – Georgina Endfield,
University of Nottingham, UK
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