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This time, instead of chatting to a special guest, listeners just like you are joining the conversation. It's a Call-In Show!Over the last couple of months, all kinds of voice messages have been submitted by listeners to act as a springboard for brainstorming, problem solving, and broader discussion around a range of climate communication challenges, observations, and questions. Through the course of this episode, we'll dig into a number of them, exploring themes like framing, psychological distance, climate deadlines, and some fundamentals of climate communications, across formats ranging from social media posts to speeches, and more.But we won't just be pointing out flaws and failures. This is a show about solutions. So, I'll be looking to a kaleidoscope of disciplines and perspectives, as well as the wisdom of previous Communicating Climate Change podcast guests, to find a path forward in each case.If you want to leave a voice message of your own, whether to respond to a topic discussed in this episode or to raise a new one for consideration for the next call-in show, just head over to the Call-In Show page. It couldn't be easier to get involved!Guidance on submitting to the Call-In Show:Step 1: Go to the Call-In Show page.Step 2: Hit the “Start Recording” button.Step 3: Describe your challenge, example, or observation.Step 4: Hit the “Stop” button when you're done.Step 5: Enter your name and email if you want (it's optional) and hit “Send”. Step 6: Tune in to the Call-In Show to see if your message gets featured!I can't wait hear from you!Additional linksCommunicating Climate Change With Funmibi OgunlesiCommunicating Climate Change With Josh GarrettCommunicating Climate Change With Kevin GreenBohn and Rogge paper “The Framing of Green Innovations”Tesla Cybertruck beats Porsche 911 while towing a 911Adam Corner on how to reach people beyond the green bubbleFull transcript of Simon Stiell's speech at Chatham HouseMy attempt at rewriting Simon Stiell's speechHere's some recent research about doomerism and shareablity Here's the link to the Mike Hulme piece on deadline-ismLink to the original Climate Crisis Advisory Group post on LinkedIn
Historically Thinking: Conversations about historical knowledge and how we achieve it
"..Since ancient times, the idea that the climate exerts a determining influence on minds and bodies, health and well-being, customs and character, war and wealth has attracted a long line of committed followers.” Alarm over climate change brought about by anthropogenic global warming has renewed—or perhaps simply enhanced—an idea with a very long history. It was after all in 1748 when Montesquieu wrote that the “empire of climate is the first, the most powerful of all empires.” But intellectual attentiveness to climate predates that remark by at least two millennia. In my guest David Livingstone's new book The Empire of Climate: A History of an Idea, his object is to “take a measure of this impulse over the longue durée.” To do that he travels from the Hippocratic treatise On Airs, Waters, and Places, to seemingly the very latest report of the International Panel on Climate Change, scaling a mountain of literature between those two points. David N. Livingstone is Emeritus Professor of Geography and Intellectual History at Queen's University Belfast. He is the author and joint editor of numerous books which congregate around the histories of geographical knowledge, the spatiality of scientific culture, and the historical geographies of science and religion. For Further Investigation For some past HT episodes related to climate see Episode 156: Stories Told by Trees; Episode 209: Climate, Catastrophe, and Faith, and Episode 340: Price of Collapse Clarence Glacken, Traces on the Rhodian Shore: Nature and Culture in Western Thought from Ancient Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century (University of California Press, 1967) Dane Kennedy, The Magic Mountains: Hill Stations and the British Raj (University of California Press, 1996) Mike Hulme, “Reducing the Future to Climate: A Story of Climate Determinism and Reductionism.” Osiris 26 Klima (2011): 245–266 Diana K. Davis, The Arid Lands: History, Power, Knowledge (MIT Press, 2016) Dagomar Degroot, The Frigid Golden Age: Climate Change, the Little Ice Age, and the Dutch Republic, 1560–1720 (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit public.substack.comPoliticians and activists alike have warned of a looming climate catastrophe for decades. “Biden urged to declare climate change a national emergency,” reported NBC last year. “Climate Changes Threatens Every Facet of U.S. Society, Federal Report Warns,” announced Scientific American.Cambridge University climate scientist Mike Hulme disagrees. “Declaring a climate emergency has a chilling effect on politics,” he tells Public. “It suggests there isn't time for normal, necessary democratic process.”Climate activists may dismiss Hulme as a “climate denier,” but he agrees the planet is warming due to human activities and specifically says we should prepare for more heat waves. Moreover, Hulme's credentials are undeniably impressive. He is a Professor at the University of Cambridge and founding Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. Hulme has advised everyone from the United Nations to the UK Government and earned a personalized certificate from the Nobel Peace Prize committee for his work with the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).Now, in his new book, Climate Change Isn't Everything, Hulme strongly denounces “climatism,” which he describes as the “unyielding belief that stopping climate change is the pre-eminent yardstick against which all policies must be measured.”
Jurgen Tiekstra in gesprek met wetenschapsjournalisten Peter Baeten en Maarten Keulemans, over het boek 'Onbeslist. Wat de klimaatwetenschap ons vertelt, wat zij ons niet vertelt, en waarom dit van belang is'. Peter Baeten vertaalde het boek en schrijft voor onder andere Clintel en De Andere Krant. Maarten Keulemans is wetenschapsredacteur bij de Volkskrant. Bronnen en links bij deze uitzending: - Het boek 'Onbeslist' van Steven E. Koonin vindt u hier: https://www.succesboeken.nl/book/9789492665768/Onbeslist - Meer informatie over het SCP8.5 scenario: https://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/ddc/ar5_scenario_process/RCPs.html - Waarom het KNMI ook het hoogste scenario gebruikt: https://www.knmi.nl/over-het-knmi/nieuws/ook-de-hoogste-en-laagste-scenario-s-voor-de-uitstoot-van-broeikasgassen-doen-er-toe - Grafiek van het aantal klimaatdoden in de laatste 100 jaar: https://images.wsj.net/im-428434/?width=780&size=1.6120906801007557&pixel_ratio=1.5 - Het gesprek met Guido van der Werf over bosbranden: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtcBtxbJmpE - Jurgen Tiekstra, 'Het klimaatdebat als lachspiegel': https://www.scriptum.nl/boeken/het-klimaatdebat-als-lachspiegel/ - Mike Hulme, 'Climate Change isn't Everything': https://www.bol.com/nl/nl/f/climate-change-isn-t-everything/9300000132461936/ - Ralf Bodelier, 'Lang leve de mens. Redden we het ook met tien miljard?': https://gompel-svacina.eu/product/lang-leve-de-mens/ - Maarten Boudry, 'Waarom de wereld niet naar de knoppen gaat': https://uitgeverijprometheus.nl/boeken/waarom-de-wereld-niet-naar-de-knoppen-gaat-paperback/
Mike Hulme is a Professor of Human Geography and head of the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on representations of climate change in history, culture, and media, and the ways in which climate change is deployed in public and political discourse. Mike's 2009 book, Why We Disagree About Climate Change, was chosen as one of The Economist's books of the year, and looks at how the idea of climate change has taken such a dominant position in modern politics. His most-recent book, Climate Change Isn't Everything: Liberating Climate Politics from Alarmism, addresses what he calls "climatism" — climate reductionism as ideology. In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with Mike about wildfires, "global warming," climate change activism, policy, hysteria, and more. The Same Drugs is a fully independent, listener-supported podcast. Please consider supporting us with a donation, by becoming a patron, or by subscribing on Substack. You can watch select clips and episodes of The Same Drugs on YouTube and on Rumble. Full videos are available on Substack, Patreon, and YouTube channel members. You can support The Same Drugs on Spotify by clicking the "support" button or by donating directly via Stripe. The Same Drugs is on X @thesamedrugs_. Meghan Murphy is on X @meghanemurphy and on Instagram @meghanemilymurphy. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-same-drugs/support
In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews Mike Hulme, Professor, U Cambridge, on how climate visions get constructed. They explore the methods, data, and scenarios underlying the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Prof. Hulme just published the book, Critical Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Futurized goes beneath the trends to track the underlying forces of disruption in tech, policy, business models, social dynamics and the environment. I'm your host, Trond Arne Undheim (@trondau), futurist, scholar, author, investor, and serial entrepreneur. I am a Research scholar in Global Systemic Risk, Innovation, and Policy at Stanford University. Join me as I discuss the societal impact of deep tech such as AI, blockchain, IoT, nanotech, quantum, robotics, and synthetic biology, and tackle topics such as entrepreneurship, trends, or the future of work. On the show, I interview smart people with a soul: founders, authors, executives, and other thought leaders, or even the occasional celebrity. Futurized is a bi-weekly show, preparing YOU to think about how to deal with the next decade's disruption, so you can succeed and thrive no matter what happens. Futurized—conversations that matter. If you're new to the show, seek particular topics, or you are looking for a great way to tell your friends about the show, which we always appreciate, we've got the episode categories. Those are at Futurized.org/episodes. They are collections of your favorite episodes organized by topic, such as Entrepreneurship, Trends, Emerging Tech, or The Future of Work. That'll help new listeners get a taste of everything that we do here, starting with a topic they are familiar with, or want to go deeper in. I am the co-author of Augmented Lean: A human-centric framework for managing frontline operations, and the author of Health Tech: Rebooting Society's Software, Hardware and Mindset, Future Tech: How to Capture Value from Disruptive industry Trends, Pandemic Aftermath: how Coronavirus changes Global Society and Disruption Games: How to Thrive on Serial Failure, and of Leadership From Below: How the Internet Generation Redefines the Workplace. For an overview, go to Trond's Books at Trondundheim.com/books At this stage, Futurized is lucky enough to have several sponsors. To check them out, go to Sponsors | Futurized - thoughts on our emerging future. If you are interested in sponsoring the podcast, or to get an overview of other services provided by the host of this podcast, including how to book him for keynote speeches, please go to Futurized.org / store. We will consider all brands that have a demonstrably positive contribution to the future. Before you do anything else, make sure you are subscribed to our newsletter on Futurized.org, where you can find hundreds of episodes of conversations that matter to the future. I hope you can also leave a positive review on iTunes or in your favorite podcast player--it really matters to the future of this podcast.
Fascinating interview with Professor Mike Hulme on his expectations for COP26, the role and importance of the COPs, and the dangers of an overly scientific approach to climate change-- a reductionist framing of the problem in terms of numbers and deadlines. He shares what he sees as some of the biggest dangers of framing climate change as an emergency—drawing lessons from government responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. Professor Hulme also discusses his new book, Climate Change, where he introduces a number of “more than science approaches,” lenses, for coming to terms with the idea of climate change: post-colonial justice and resistance; the arts and humanities; and the lenses of various world religions. Dr Mike Hulme is professor of Human Geography in the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Pembroke College. His work explores the idea of climate change from a range of perspectives-- historical, cultural, scientific-- revealing various ideological, political and ethical dimensions to the way climate change is deployed in public and political conversations. Author of numerous books on climate, his latest book is Climate Change, where he argues that the full power of the idea of climate change can only be grasped from a vantage point that embraces the social sciences, humanities, and natural sciences.
Sam and Emma host Mike Hulme, Professor of Human Geography at the University of Cambridge, to discuss his recent book Climate Change, which covers how public opinion on climate change has shifted over the last few decades, and what we can do to move towards policy solutions. They start off with a conversation on what has developed since his previous book, “Why We Disagree About Climate Change,” focusing on both the Paris Agreements and the continued development of extreme climate catastrophes, before they attempt to tackle the question of the roles that natural versus social scientists have and should play in pushing for solutions to climate change. Beginning by jumping back to the 1980s, Prof Hulme, Emma, and Sam look at how the IPCC, as the first intergovernmental address of global warming, centered on physical scientists. Next, while acknowledging the incredible importance natural scientists play in tackling climate change, they discuss why framing it as a science issue rather than a policy-based issue has hindered us from actually taking it on, while looking at the importance of really localized policy solutions in order to equitably handle the consequences of climate change, before discussing the inherent issues in any universal prescription for this problem. They wrap up the interview by touching on the similarities in the mentalities of climate change denial and COVID denial, and why the US framing of the relationship between constituents and federal government exacerbates both of these, and reemphasize why we must do more than just “follow” science, but act with policy. And in the Fun Half: Emma and Sam discuss the impending vaccine mandate as the right gets narrower and narrower with their scaremongering, from Kilmeade's vaccination jail argument (despite Fox having their own mandate) to Crowder and his producer struggling to figure out how to correctly fudge the numbers. Daniel the former objectivist calls in to discuss the utmost importance of really understanding where Ayn Rand sits between objectivism and libertarianism and Kowalski from Nebraska gives some tips on using religion to help conservatives come around on climate change. They also cover the continued chaos around the upcoming votes on the bipartisan and reconciliation bills, plus, your calls and IMs! Become a member at JoinTheMajorityReport.com Subscribe to the AMQuickie newsletter here. Join the Majority Report Discord! http://majoritydiscord.com/ Get all your MR merch at our store https://shop.majorityreportradio.com/ (Merch issues and concerns can be addressed here: majorityreportstore@mirrorimage.com) You can now watch the livestream on Twitch Check out today's sponsor: MySolarNerd.com: There are a lot of homeowners that aren't aware of the solar options currently available. It is now possible to retrofit a home with solar panels for no money down. Most homeowners that switch over to solar see significant savings starting in their first year. This is possible thanks to the Solar Investor Tax Credit (going away soon). My Solar Nerd's mission is SIMPLE: Help you find the best solar program for your home and make the transition as EASY and SMOOTH as possible. Go to mysolarnerd.com and fill out the inquiry form now. Make sure you select Majority Report Listener for how you heard about My Solar Nerd to receive a $200 gift card upon installation! Support the St. Vincent Nurses today as they continue to strike for a fair contract! https://action.massnurses.org/we-stand-with-st-vincents-nurses/ Subscribe to Discourse Blog, a newsletter and website for progressive essays and related fun partly run by AM Quickie writer Jack Crosbie. https://discourseblog.com/ Subscribe to AM Quickie writer Corey Pein's podcast News from Nowhere, at https://www.patreon.com/newsfromnowhere Check out Matt's show, Left Reckoning, on Youtube, and subscribe on Patreon! Subscribe to Matt's other show Literary Hangover on Patreon! Check out The Letterhack's upcoming Kickstarter project for his new graphic novel! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/milagrocomic/milagro-heroe-de-las-calles Check out Matt Binder's YouTube channel! Subscribe to Brandon's show The Discourse on Patreon! Check out The Nomiki Show live at 3 pm ET on YouTube at patreon.com/thenomikishow Check out Jamie's podcast, The Antifada, at patreon.com/theantifada, on iTunes, or at twitch.tv/theantifada (streaming every Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 7pm ET!) Follow the Majority Report crew on Twitter: @SamSeder @EmmaVigeland @MattBinder @MattLech @BF1nn @BradKAlsop Call the Congressional switchboard (the House: 202-225-3121, the Senate: 202-224-3121) to demand your representatives don't vote on the infrastructure bill until reconciliation passes!
What can the covid pandemic teach us about handling the climate crisis? We've seen that governments have not hesitated to take bold action when faced with this virus, by going into lockdowns and declaring states of emergency. Should we respond in a similar way to climate change? Or does emergency politics risk narrowing our field of view and undermine our democracies? Joining us in the Forest of Thought is Professor of Human Geography Mike Hulme. Mike Hulme is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Pembroke College. His work explores the idea of climate change using historical, cultural and scientific analyses, investigating the numerous ways in which climate change is deployed in public and political discourse. He has just released his latest book ‘Climate Change', which is part of the Routledge Key Ideas in Geography book series. LINKS: Mike Hulme's blog on re-socialisation after the pandemic: https://mikehulme.org/re-socialising-a-vaccinated-world-requires-political-struggle/ Mike's latest book : https://www.routledge.com/Climate-Change/Hulme/p/book/9780367422035 Niels Gilman's article on avocado politics: https://thebreakthrough.org/journal/no-12-winter-2020/avocado-politics ‘Emergency politics is dangerous' article by Mike Hulme: https://issues.org/climate-emergency-politics-is-dangerous/ Forthcoming book by Taylor Dotson: ‘The Divide: How Fanatical Certitude is Destroying Democracy'.
In February and March 2021, The Christian Evidence society ran a series of five sessions. We at Still Unbelievable attended these. This Final episode features Andrew, Matthew and Darren discussing the forth and fifth session, which were Mike Hulme talking about Climate and Rowan Williams talking about Prayer and Spirituality. The first episode covered Jonathan Aitken speaking about truth and Gillian Straine talking about Healing. The second episode was Joel Edwards talking about race. Session 4: Dr Mike Hulme - Climate https://mikehulme.org/ Session 5: Rowan Williams - Is God really Listening? https://www.magd.cam.ac.uk/user/williams To contact us, email: reasonpress@gmail.com Our Theme Music was written for us by Holly, to support her and to purchase her music use the links below: https://hollykirstensongs.com/ https://hollykirsten.bandcamp.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/still-unbelievable/message
In February and March 2021, The Christian Evidence society ran a series of five sessions. We at Still Unbelievable attended these. This Second episode features Andrew, Matthew and Darren discussing the third session, which was Joel Edwards talking about race. The first episode covered Jonathan Aitken speaking about truth and Gillian Straine talking about Healing. The next episode will cover Mike Hulme talking about Climate and Rowan Williams talking about Prayer and Spirituality. Session 3: Joel Edwards CBE - Race https://www.csw.org.uk/2015/09/29/news/2779/article.htm NPR: Race and Christianity https://www.npr.org/2020/08/28/907029717/white-christians-grapple-with-their-faiths-racist-past-and-present?t=1618133184633 USA Guidestones https://www.wired.com/2009/04/ff-guidestones/ To contact us, email: reasonpress@gmail.com Our Theme Music was written for us by Holly, to support her and to purchase her music use the links below: https://hollykirstensongs.com/ https://hollykirsten.bandcamp.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/still-unbelievable/message
In February and March 2021, The Christian Evidence society ran a series of five sessions. We at Still Unbelievable attended these and over the next three episodes we will be reviewing our experience of these sessions from the perspective of non Christians. This first episode covers the first two sessions sessions which are Jonathan Aitken speaking about truth and Gillian Straine talking about Healing. Episode two will cover Joel Edwards talking about Race and the final episode will cover Mike Hulme talking about Climate and Rowan Williams talking about Prayer and Spirituality. https://christianevidence.org/2021/01/23/new-webinar-series-tackles-questions-of-our-times/ Session 1: Jonathan Aitkin - Truth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Aitken Session 2: Gillian Straine - Healing https://christianevidence.org/2021/01/23/new-webinar-series-tackles-questions-of-our-times/ To contact us, email: reasonpress@gmail.com Our Theme Music was written for us by Holly, to support her and to purchase her music use the links below: https://hollykirstensongs.com/ https://hollykirsten.bandcamp.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/still-unbelievable/message
CMTY Podcast # 544 -VMware Cloud & Modern Apps Event Launching W/ Mike Hulme- by VMware Podcasts
Climate change is likely to affect almost every area of our lives… but how did we get to this point? When and why did we first take notice of climate change? And why has climate change evaded our collective attention and action for so long?We talked with professor of human geography, Mike Hulme, science historian and journalist Dr Sarah Dry and environmental economist Dr Matthew Agarwala to try to figure all of this out. Along the way, we discovered new ways of thinking about climate change, from a tragic story where the issue is constantly caught between opposing forces, to more hopefully thinking of it as a source of generative change and innovation. This episode was produced by Nick Saffell, James Dolan and Naomi Clements-Brod. From the University of Cambridge and Cambridge Zero.Please take our survey. How did you find us? Do you want more Mind Over Chatter in your life? Less? We want to know. So we put together this survey. If you could please take a few minutes to fill it out, it would be a big help.Thanks very much.In this episode:0:00 - Intro 03:15 - What was the starting point for human made climate change? 08:30 - Recap point10:10 - The economics of climate change and modelling for the future.14:45 - The tragedy and politics of climate change16:05 - The concept of values20:25 - Recap point22:10 - Can we find a single answer or a single story to solve climate change? 25:50 - The concept of the wealth economy28:00 - Denialism and climate optimism 32:35 - What we've learned from COVID33:35 - Recap point35:20 - Has democracy helped, or hindered climate change? 37:15 - Are there any reasons to be optimistic? 40:45 - In the next episodeGuest Bios: Dr Sarah Dry (@SarahDry1)I write about the history of science. I have written about Victorian fishermen and risk, epidemics and global health policy, the life and loves of Marie Curie, and the history of Isaac Newton's manuscripts. That last project has just been published in paperback: The Newton Papers: The Strange and True Odyssey of Isaac Newton's Manuscripts.My latest book is Waters of the World: The Story of the Scientists Who Unravelled the Mysteries of our Seas, Glaciers and Atmosphere–and Made the Planet Whole. It tells the stories of the scientists who have uncovered the mysteries of our oceans, atmosphere, icesheets and glaciers, and in doing so, helped us see the earth as an interconnected globe. https://sarahdry.com/home/Dr Matthew Agarwala (@MatthewAgarwala)Matthew Agarwala is an environmental economist interested in wealth-based approaches to measuring and delivering sustainable development. The pace of globalisation, innovation, and social, environmental, and economic upheaval leaves no doubt: 20th century statistics can't capture 21st century progress. Matthew joined the Bennett Institute's wealth economy...
Is there such thing as a perfect climate? Will we ever solve climate change? What even is climate change? Oh, and how did it enable Donald Trump to get elected? Mike Hulme, Professor of Human Geography and Fellow of Pembroke College at Cambridge University, is one of the most cited climate scientists in the world. He joins us on this premiere installment of Season Two on Climate Change to discuss the culture and history of climate change, rebuke the immunity of science, and debate the purpose of climbing Sudanese mountains. It's good to be back. This episode is brought to you by the Ashley Wilson Piano Studio, offering private, in-person or online piano lessons from beginners to advanced levels. Visit https://www.ashleywilsonpianostudio.com for more information. The views of Prof. Mike Hulme are his own and do not represent those of his employer, Cambridge University. --------------------------------------------- Follow us on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter = @thefinchpodcast Follow us on Spotify = https://sptfy.com/thefinchpodcast Check out our website = https://www.thefinchpodcast.com Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, Google Podcasts, Anchor FM, TuneIn, Breaker, Pocket Casts, Overcast, Pod Bay, and Radio Public. New episodes every week! Aired on September 6th, 2020 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-finch-podcast/support
In this episode, Mike Hulme, Senior Director, Marketing, VMware Cloud, begins with how VMware and Dell Technologies come together to help retailers and explains VMware Cloud Foundation and Dell VxRail solutions. Mike discusses VMware’s cloud-based offerings and advice for customers getting started on their application modernization journey. Mike concludes with balancing application portfolio and infrastructure between cloud-native and on-prem, where to find more info and final thoughts.
In this episode, Mike Hulme, Senior Director, Marketing, VMware Cloud, details the unique characteristics of today’s retail climate which define the application portfolio and related infrastructure. Mike explains characteristics such as the need for flexibility to address seasonality, and the many different ways that different types of retailers are using applications across their businesses. Mike discusses the impact of business continuity and disaster recovery considerations on application evolution and infrastructure strategies. Mike concludes with an application modernization success story with telco retailer T-Mobile.
In this episode, Mike Hulme, Senior Director, Marketing, VMware Cloud, begins with how retailers are leveraging technology to better power their success. Mike explores the challenges that retailers are facing and how they are using technology to improve the customer experience. Mike discusses how retailers are evolving their application portfolio to support better customer engagement and how they are integrating their existing and new applications into a comprehensive portfolio. Mike concludes with a discussion of the linkage between application requirements and infrastructure investments.
This event co-hosted by Cambridge University Press and Cambridge Zero during Academic Book Week explored how law and the humanities Tackling the Climate Crisis. Held at Pitt Hall in the University of Cambridge included speakers Dr. Emily Shuckburgh of Cambridge Zero, Prof. Paul Warde of the Department of History, Prof. Mike Hulme of the Department …
Today we speak with Dr. Mike Hulme about climate change from an enlightening perspective that encompasses the relationship between science and policy, science and culture, the politics of climate change, and the possibilities for action in the world. Mike claims we are beyond “stopping” climate change, we must be pragmatic and scale back to simply trying to avoid most egregious problems. We must not rely on artificial, one-size-fits all deadlines put into place regarding a specific number of degrees or tons of CO2, and also consider the world's other problems beyond climate change. Dr. Mike Hulme is a Professor of Human Geography in the department of Geography at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Pembroke College. His work explores the idea of climate change from a range of perspectives, historical, cultural, scientific, revealing various ideological, political and ethical dimensions to the way climate change is deployed in public and political conversations. The post Episode 88: Interview with Professor Mike Hulme on the culture and politics of climate change appeared first on The Sustainability Agenda.
Mike Hulme, Director of Alstom and Chair of Northern Rail Industry Leaders, joins us in the studio for our second RTM podcast, giving us exclusive insight into the rail supply chain and why rail is starting to become more cutting-edge.
This lecture took place at the Australian Museum on 23 April 2018. How do different human cultures give shape and meaning to the idea of climate? Join Mike Hulme, Professor of Human Geography at the University of Cambridge, as he explores some of the many fascinating ways climates are historicized, known, changed, lived with, blamed, feared, represented, predicted, governed and, at least putatively, re-designed. Understanding these complex climate cultures is, Hulme contends, essential to any adequate understanding of the politics of climate change. HumanNature: The Humanities in a Time of Environmental Crisis lecture series investigates the increasing impact of crises such as climate change, mass species extinction, Indigenous dispossession, racism and the excesses of capitalism, and determine how to respond to the greatest global emergencies of our time.
Has climate change become a fetish? No, not that kind of fetish.
Dominic and Cymene hide in the bushes to talk existential terror and low carbon pleasure. We then (10:23) chat with famed geographer Mike Hulme, author of Can Science Fix Climate Change? and Why We Disagree About Climate Change, about his 35 years of research on climate. We talk about the many meanings of the term “climate” and its ancient roots as a concept. Then we turn to the early days of research on human-induced climate change in the 1980s and Mike's work on global rainfall trends that later caught the attention of the IPCC. We discuss his most recent book, Weathered: Cultures of Climate (Sage, 2016) and the entanglements of weather, place and meaning. We talk about different ways of measuring climate across time and culture, why we need to embrace a multiplicity of knowledge forms of climate, the danger of paternalist thinking about climate change, different narratives of blame and responsibility, and why Mike thinks that moral and religious accounts of climate change need to be foregrounded. Mike also shares why he is skeptical about humans trying to take over the atmosphere, and his thoughts about the appropriate role for technology to play in addressing climate change and the tragedy of the human condition. We close on why climate change has been so psychologically disturbing and why Mike finds the cultural politics of climate in the United States so fascinating. Mike may not believe that we will “solve” climate change but he does see in our efforts at remediation profound opportunities for addressing inequality. Listen on!
With arctic sea ice shrinking and Antarctic sea ice growing, Tom Heap asks what is happening to the climate. Despite the consensus of scientists around the world, there are still some anomalies in the computer models of the future climate. Tom Heap is joined by a panel of experts to tackle some of the difficult questions that lead to uncertainties in our understanding of the changing climate. The perceived wisdom in the scientific community is that the climate is warming but evidence shows that even though Arctic sea ice is melting, there has actually been a growth in Antarctic sea ice. That, along with a documented slow down in the warming of the climate since 1998, has been a 'stone in the shoe' of the climate change story. So what is happening? Tom is joined by BBC and Met office weather presenter John Hammond to put these 'difficult' climate scenarios to a team of experts: Mark Lynas is an author and environmental campaigner, Mike Hulme is professor of Climate and Culture at Kings College London and Dr Helen Czerski is a broadcaster and 'bubble physicist' at UCL. With the help of this panel, Costing The Earth discusses how best to communicate anomalies that don't appear in climate models and make the science sometimes hard to comprehend. Presenter: Tom Heap Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts.
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Guest : Prof. Mike Hulme, University of East Anglia December 5 2010 As COP 16 gets underway in Cancun, the tone and substance of the debate around climate change science and policy is a world away from where it was just one year ago. Expectations have ebbed, uncertanties abound, and … more >>