Saturday 31 October, 1.30pm until 3.00pm, Lecture Theatre 2 In Conversation Salons
Austin Williams presents a special Battle Bookshop Barnie with Mike Hulme, founding director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, on his latest book Why We Disagree About Climate Change: Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity.
Hulme has set the cat amongst the pigeons by rejecting the notion that there is a ‘consensus’ regarding the science of climate change. He points out there are even disagreements about the nature of scientific knowledge itself. He is also opposed to the politicisation of science. But is he really just worried about the use of ‘the language of fear and apocalypse’? After all, he suggests that we should ‘harness climate change to give new expression to some of the… values that matter to us’. In other words, is this a criticism of the climate change debate… or just spinning the same message in a more pragmatic way?
Challenge the author to explain why we must all ‘come to terms with climate change’
You are not expected to have read the book… but hopefully you will buy a signed copy at the bookstall if you’re convinced.
Listen to the session audio…
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 | Professor Mike Hulme professor of climate change, University of East Anglia; founding director, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research; author, Why We Disagree About Climate Change: understanding controversy, inaction and opportunity |
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Austin Williams
director, Future Cities Project; convenor, Critical Subjects: Architecture & Design Winter School |
Climate change is everywhere. Not only is the physical climate changing, but the idea of climate change is now active across the full range of human endeavours. Climate change has moved from being a predominantly physical phenomenon to being a social one, in the process reshaping the way we think about ourselves, our societies and humanity's place on Earth.
Mike Hulme, New Scientist, 7 September 2009
Climate change is not ‘a problem’ waiting for ‘a solution’. It is an environmental, cultural and political phenomenon which is re-shaping the way we think about ourselves, our societies and humanity’s place on Earth.
Mike Hulme, Cambridge University Press, 30 April 2009
What impact will the global economic downturn have on arguments about climate change? The way to an answer lies through ourselves as much as the weather.
Mike Hulme, openDemocracy, 1 November 2008
