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The changing climate poses serious dangers to human and non-human
life alike, though perhaps the most urgent danger is one we hear
very little about: the rise of climatism. Too many social,
political and ecological problems facing the world today – from
the Russian invasion of Ukraine to the management of wildfires –
quickly become climatized, explained with reference to ‘a change
in the climate’. When complex political and ethical challenges
are so narrowly framed, arresting climate change is sold as the
supreme political challenge of our time and everything else becomes
subservient to this one goal. In this far-sighted analysis, Mike
Hulme reveals how climatism has taken hold in recent years,
becoming so pervasive and embedded in public life that it is
increasingly hard to resist it without being written off as a
climate denier. He confronts this dangerously myopic view that
reduces the condition of the world to the fate of global
temperature or the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide to
the detriment of tackling serious issues as varied as poverty,
liberty, biodiversity loss, inequality and international diplomacy.
We must not live as though climate alone determines our present and
our future.
Focusing on climate change policy after the first Kyoto commitment
period ending in 2012, this special issue examines long-term
strategy and the implications for stakeholders and the environment.
International experts offer detailed policy analysis and review the
links between policy and economics, sustainable development,
technology and adaptation. An invaluable and insightful source of
information on long-term thinking on climate change, this special
issue of Climate Policy addresses the following key questions: What
long-term range of policies for climate change adaptation and
mitigation should Europe pursue to adequately enhance
sustainability on a global level? What are the implications of
long-term European climate strategy for the design of a global
post-2012 climate regime? What are the key concerns of different
stakeholders and how will these concerns impact on long-term
climate policy?These questions were discussed during two workshops,
commissioned by the European Forum on Integrated Environmental
Assessment (EFIEA) and jointly organized by the National Institute
of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), The Netherlands and
the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Resear publication in this
special issue. The special issue also includes introductory and
concluding remarks from the guest editors, highlighting key points
and offering an expert synthesis of the workshop
discussions.Climate Policy Options Post-2012 offers a synthesis of
expert thinking on long-term climate policy, addressing points such
as: EU institutional and coalition development on climate change
strategy, the importance of setting a diverse range of targets and
commitments, retaining other features such as the flexible
mechanisms, assessing costs and competitiveness, dealing with
policy dilemmas and creating coherence in policy issues, and the
need to strengthen strategic research, boost technological change,
pay more attention to impacts and adaptation to enhance support for
mitigation, develop a long-term vision and link this to short term
action and managing of change.
Our understanding of climate and its role in human affairs has
changed markedly over recent years, as have climate observation
systems and modelling capabilities. Reliance on recent weather
statistics to provide a guide for future climate is no longer
viable. Evidence of human-induced climate change has placed climate
high on political and the media agendas. This text provides an
account of what we know about climate and changing climates at the
end of the 20th century. Integrating the historical and
geographical dimensions of climate, the crucial link between past
and future climatic conditions is examined through the geographical
lens of the British Isles. Climates of past ages are reconstructed
and full descriptions of the present climate are illustrated by
graphs, maps and images. Important climate data sets are provided.
Marking the 25th anniversary of the Climatic Research Unit, this
book distils much of the leading research of present and recent
members of the unit and presents a view of climatic change and
prospects for the next millenium and beyond.
Written by a leading geographer of climate, this book offers a
unique guide to students and general readers alike for making sense
of this profound, far-reaching, and contested idea. It presents
climate change as an idea with a past, a present, and a future. In
ten carefully crafted chapters, Climate Change offers a synoptic
and inter-disciplinary understanding of the idea of climate change
from its varied historical and cultural origins; to its
construction more recently through scientific endeavour; to the
multiple ways in which political, social, and cultural movements in
today's world seek to make sense of and act upon it; to the
possible futures of climate, however it may be governed and
imagined. The central claim of the book is that the full breadth
and power of the idea of climate change can only be grasped from a
vantage point that embraces the social sciences, humanities, and
natural sciences. This vantage point is what the book offers,
written from the perspective of a geographer whose career work on
climate change has drawn across the full range of academic
disciplines. The book highlights the work of leading geographers in
relation to climate change; examples, illustrations, and case study
boxes are drawn from different cultures around the world, and
questions are posed for use in class discussions. The book is
written as a student text, suitable for disciplinary and
inter-disciplinary undergraduate and graduate courses that embrace
climate change from within social science and humanities
disciplines. Science students studying climate change on
inter-disciplinary programmes will also benefit from reading it, as
too will the general reader looking for a fresh and distinctive
account of climate change.
Mike Hulme has been studying climate change for over thirty years
and is today one of the most distinctive and recognisable voices
speaking internationally about climate change in the academy, in
public and in the media. The argument that he has made powerfully
over the last few years is that climate change has to be understood
as much as an idea situated in different cultural contexts as it is
as a physical phenomenon to be studied through universal scientific
practices. Climate change at its core embraces both science and
society, both knowledge and culture. Hulme's numerous academic and
popular writings have explored what this perspective means for the
different ways climate change is studied, narrated, argued over and
acted upon. Exploring Climate Change through Science and in Society
gathers together for the first time a collection of his most
popular, prominent and controversial articles, essays, speeches,
interviews and reviews dating back to the late 1980s. The 50 or so
short items are grouped together in seven themes - Science,
Researching, Culture, Policy, Communicating, Controversy, Futures -
and within each theme are arranged chronologically to reveal
changing ideas, evidence and perspectives about climate change.
Each themed section is preceded with a brief introduction, drawing
out the main issues examined. Three substantive unpublished new
essays have been specially written for the book, including one
reflecting on the legacy of Climategate. Taken as a collection,
these writings reveal the changes in scientific and public
understandings of climate change since the late 1980s, as refracted
through the mind and expression of one leading academic and public
commentator. The collection shows the many different ways in which
it is necessary to approach the idea of climate change to interpret
and make sense of the divergent and discordant voices proclaiming
it in the public sphere.
Written by a leading geographer of climate, this book offers a
unique guide to students and general readers alike for making sense
of this profound, far-reaching, and contested idea. It presents
climate change as an idea with a past, a present, and a future. In
ten carefully crafted chapters, Climate Change offers a synoptic
and inter-disciplinary understanding of the idea of climate change
from its varied historical and cultural origins; to its
construction more recently through scientific endeavour; to the
multiple ways in which political, social, and cultural movements in
today's world seek to make sense of and act upon it; to the
possible futures of climate, however it may be governed and
imagined. The central claim of the book is that the full breadth
and power of the idea of climate change can only be grasped from a
vantage point that embraces the social sciences, humanities, and
natural sciences. This vantage point is what the book offers,
written from the perspective of a geographer whose career work on
climate change has drawn across the full range of academic
disciplines. The book highlights the work of leading geographers in
relation to climate change; examples, illustrations, and case study
boxes are drawn from different cultures around the world, and
questions are posed for use in class discussions. The book is
written as a student text, suitable for disciplinary and
inter-disciplinary undergraduate and graduate courses that embrace
climate change from within social science and humanities
disciplines. Science students studying climate change on
inter-disciplinary programmes will also benefit from reading it, as
too will the general reader looking for a fresh and distinctive
account of climate change.
This special issue of the Climate Policy journal addresses the
following key questions: * What long-term range of policies for
climate change adaptation and mitigation should Europe pursue to
adequately enhance sustainability on a global level? * What are the
implications of long-term European climate strategy for the design
of a global post-2012 climate regime? * What are the key concerns
of different stakeholders and how will these concerns impact on
long-term climate policy? These questions were discussed during two
workshops, commissioned by the European Forum on Integrated
Environmental Assessment (EFIEA) and jointly organized by the
National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), The
Netherlands and the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, UK.
Selected papers from these workshops were adapted and peer-reviewed
for publication. International experts offer detailed policy
analysis and review the links between policy and economics,
sustainable development, technology and adaptation. Also included
are introductory and concluding remarks from the guest editors,
highlighting key points and offering an expert synthesis of the
workshop discussions. This will be invaluable reading for
professionals, researchers and academics interested in climate
change and climate policy, policy makers, policy analysts, energy
consultants, and representatives from industry planning their own
long-term energy strategies.
Our understanding of climate and its role in human affairs has
changed markedly over recent years, as have climate observation
systems and modelling capabilities. Reliance on recent weather
statistics to provide a guide for future climate is no longer
viable. Evidence of human-induced climate change has placed climate
high on political and the media agendas. This text provides an
account of what we know about climate and changing climates at the
end of the 20th century. Integrating the historical and
geographical dimensions of climate, the crucial link between past
and future climatic conditions is examined through the geographical
lens of the British Isles. Climates of past ages are reconstructed
and full descriptions of the present climate are illustrated by
graphs, maps and images. Important climate data sets are provided.
Marking the 25th anniversary of the Climatic Research Unit, this
book distils much of the leading research of present and recent
members of the unit and presents a view of climatic change and
prospects for the next millenium and beyond.
Contemporary Climate Change Debates is an innovative new textbook
which tackles some of the difficult questions raised by climate
change. For the complex policy challenges surrounding climate
migration, adaptation and resilience, structured debates become
effective learning devices for students. This book is organised
around 15 important questions, and is split into four parts: What
do we need to know? What should we do? On what grounds should we
base our actions? Who should be the agents of change? Each debate
is addressed by pairs of one or two leading or emerging academics
who present opposing viewpoints. Through this format the book is
designed to introduce students of climate change to different
arguments prompted by these questions, and also provides a unique
opportunity for them to engage in critical thinking and debate
amongst themselves. Each chapter concludes with suggestions for
further reading and with discussion questions for use in student
classes. Drawing upon the sciences, social sciences and humanities
to debate these ethical, cultural, legal, social, economic,
technological and political roadblocks, Contemporary Debates on
Climate Change is essential reading for all students of climate
change, as well as those studying environmental policy and politics
and sustainable development more broadly.
Contemporary Climate Change Debates is an innovative new textbook
which tackles some of the difficult questions raised by climate
change. For the complex policy challenges surrounding climate
migration, adaptation and resilience, structured debates become
effective learning devices for students. This book is organised
around 15 important questions, and is split into four parts: What
do we need to know? What should we do? On what grounds should we
base our actions? Who should be the agents of change? Each debate
is addressed by pairs of one or two leading or emerging academics
who present opposing viewpoints. Through this format the book is
designed to introduce students of climate change to different
arguments prompted by these questions, and also provides a unique
opportunity for them to engage in critical thinking and debate
amongst themselves. Each chapter concludes with suggestions for
further reading and with discussion questions for use in student
classes. Drawing upon the sciences, social sciences and humanities
to debate these ethical, cultural, legal, social, economic,
technological and political roadblocks, Contemporary Debates on
Climate Change is essential reading for all students of climate
change, as well as those studying environmental policy and politics
and sustainable development more broadly.
Companion to Environmental Studies presents a comprehensive and
interdisciplinary overview of the key issues, debates, concepts,
approaches and questions that together define environmental studies
today. The intellectually wide-ranging volume covers approaches in
environmental science all the way through to humanistic and
post-natural perspectives on the biophysical world. Though many
academic disciplines have incorporated studying the environment as
part of their curriculum, only in recent years has it become
central to the social sciences and humanities rather than mainly
the geosciences. 'The environment' is now a keyword in everything
from fisheries science to international relations to philosophical
ethics to cultural studies. The Companion brings these subject
areas, and their distinctive perspectives and contributions,
together in one accessible volume. Over 150 short chapters written
by leading international experts provide concise, authoritative and
easy-to-use summaries of all the major and emerging topics
dominating the field, while the seven part introductions situate
and provide context for section entries. A gateway to deeper
understanding is provided via further reading and links to online
resources. Companion to Environmental Studies offers an essential
one-stop reference to university students, academics, policy makers
and others keenly interested in 'the environmental question', the
answer to which will define the coming century.
Mike Hulme has been studying climate change for over thirty years
and is today one of the most distinctive and recognisable voices
speaking internationally about climate change in the academy, in
public and in the media. The argument that he has made powerfully
over the last few years is that climate change has to be understood
as much as an idea situated in different cultural contexts as it is
as a physical phenomenon to be studied through universal scientific
practices. Climate change at its core embraces both science and
society, both knowledge and culture. Hulme's numerous academic and
popular writings have explored what this perspective means for the
different ways climate change is studied, narrated, argued over and
acted upon. Exploring Climate Change through Science and in Society
gathers together for the first time a collection of his most
popular, prominent and controversial articles, essays, speeches,
interviews and reviews dating back to the late 1980s. The 50 or so
short items are grouped together in seven themes - Science,
Researching, Culture, Policy, Communicating, Controversy, Futures -
and within each theme are arranged chronologically to reveal
changing ideas, evidence and perspectives about climate change.
Each themed section is preceded with a brief introduction, drawing
out the main issues examined. Three substantive unpublished new
essays have been specially written for the book, including one
reflecting on the legacy of Climategate. Taken as a collection,
these writings reveal the changes in scientific and public
understandings of climate change since the late 1980s, as refracted
through the mind and expression of one leading academic and public
commentator. The collection shows the many different ways in which
it is necessary to approach the idea of climate change to interpret
and make sense of the divergent and discordant voices proclaiming
it in the public sphere.
Companion to Environmental Studies presents a comprehensive and
interdisciplinary overview of the key issues, debates, concepts,
approaches and questions that together define environmental studies
today. The intellectually wide-ranging volume covers approaches in
environmental science all the way through to humanistic and
post-natural perspectives on the biophysical world. Though many
academic disciplines have incorporated studying the environment as
part of their curriculum, only in recent years has it become
central to the social sciences and humanities rather than mainly
the geosciences. 'The environment' is now a keyword in everything
from fisheries science to international relations to philosophical
ethics to cultural studies. The Companion brings these subject
areas, and their distinctive perspectives and contributions,
together in one accessible volume. Over 150 short chapters written
by leading international experts provide concise, authoritative and
easy-to-use summaries of all the major and emerging topics
dominating the field, while the seven part introductions situate
and provide context for section entries. A gateway to deeper
understanding is provided via further reading and links to online
resources. Companion to Environmental Studies offers an essential
one-stop reference to university students, academics, policy makers
and others keenly interested in 'the environmental question', the
answer to which will define the coming century.
The changing climate poses serious dangers to human and non-human
life alike, though perhaps the most urgent danger is one we hear
very little about: the rise of climatism. Too many social,
political and ecological problems facing the world today – from
the Russian invasion of Ukraine to the management of wildfires –
quickly become climatized, explained with reference to ‘a change
in the climate’. When complex political and ethical challenges
are so narrowly framed, arresting climate change is sold as the
supreme political challenge of our time and everything else becomes
subservient to this one goal. In this far-sighted analysis, Mike
Hulme reveals how climatism has taken hold in recent years,
becoming so pervasive and embedded in public life that it is
increasingly hard to resist it without being written off as a
climate denier. He confronts this dangerously myopic view that
reduces the condition of the world to the fate of global
temperature or the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide to
the detriment of tackling serious issues as varied as poverty,
liberty, biodiversity loss, inequality and international diplomacy.
We must not live as though climate alone determines our present and
our future.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has become a
hugely influential institution. It is the authoritative voice on
the science on climate change, and an exemplar of an
intergovernmental science-policy interface. This book introduces
the IPCC as an institution, covering its origins, history,
processes, participants, products, and influence. Discussing its
internal workings and operating principles, it shows how IPCC
assessments are produced and how consensus is reached between
scientific and policy experts from different institutions,
countries, and social groups. A variety of practices and discourses
- epistemic, diplomatic, procedural, communicative - that make the
institution function are critically assessed, allowing the reader
to learn from its successes and failures. This volume is the go-to
reference for researchers studying or active within the IPCC, as
well as invaluable for students concerned with global environmental
problems and climate governance. This title is also available as
Open Access via Cambridge Core.
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. Drawing upon twenty-five years of
professional work as an international climate change scientist and
public commentator, Mike Hulme provides a unique insider's account
of the emergence of this phenomenon and the diverse ways in which
it is understood. He uses different standpoints from science,
economics, faith, psychology, communication, sociology, politics
and development to explain why we disagree about climate change. In
this way he shows that climate change, far from being simply an
'issue' or a 'threat', can act as a catalyst to revise our
perception of our place in the world. Why We Disagree About Climate
Change is an important contribution to the ongoing debate over
climate change and its likely impact on our lives.
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. Drawing upon twenty-five years of
professional work as an international climate change scientist and
public commentator, Mike Hulme provides a unique insider's account
of the emergence of this phenomenon and the diverse ways in which
it is understood. He uses different standpoints from science,
economics, faith, psychology, communication, sociology, politics
and development to explain why we disagree about climate change. In
this way he shows that climate change, far from being simply an
'issue' or a 'threat', can act as a catalyst to revise our
perception of our place in the world. Why We Disagree About Climate
Change is an important contribution to the ongoing debate over
climate change and its likely impact on our lives.
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