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Mike HulmeMike Hulme Visit

November 3-5, 2010

Mike Hulme, professor of climate change in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia, will be visiting the University of Colorado the first week of November 2010.

Biography: Mike Hulme is professor of climate change in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia (UEA). He was the Founding Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research from 2000 to 2007. His work explores the idea of climate change using historical, cultural and scientific analyses, seeking to illuminate the numerous ways in which climate change is deployed in public and political discourse. His two most recent books are Why We Disagree About Climate Change: understanding controversy, inaction and opportunity (2009) and, with Henry Neufeldt, the edited volume Making Climate Change Work For Us (2010) which is a synthesis of the research findings of the EU FP6 Integrated Project ‘ADAM: Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies’. He is editor-in-chief of the new review journal: Wiley’s Interdisciplinary Reviews (WIREs): Climate Change.

The following events will be taking place:

November 3 at 3:30 PM
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
Graduate Students roundtable discussion with Mike Hulme
CSTPR Conference Room | More Info

This roundtable discussion is for CU-Boulder graduate students


November 4 from 12:00 - 1:00 PM
CSTPR NOONTIME SEMINAR SERIES
How Climate Models Gain and Exercise Authority
CU-Boulder, CIRES AUDITORIUM | More Info

by Mike Hulme
School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia

 

November 4 from 7:00 - 9:00PM
Why We Disagree about Climate Change: An Evening with Professors Mike Hulme and Michael Zimmerman
The Boulder Integral Center, 2805 Broadway, Boulder, CO | More Info

Join in for an evening with Mike Hulme, an important voice in the too often overheated debate about climate change. He will be joined by Boulder Integral member, Michael Zimmerman, co-author (with Sean Esbjorn-Hargens) of Integral Ecology.

 

November 5 from 4:00 - 5:00 PM
CIRES DISTUINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES
Why We Disagree About Climate Change
CU-Boulder, Old Main Chapel | More Info

by Mike Hulme
School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia

Summary: Climate change is not “a problem” waiting for “a solution”. It is an environmental, political and cultural phenomenon that is reshaping the way we think about ourselves, about our societies and about humanity’s place on Earth. Based on some of the ideas contained in my recent book, Why We Disagree About Climate Change, this lecture dissects this idea of climate change – where it came from, what it means to different people in different places and why we disagree about it. It uses the different standpoints of science, economics, faith, psychology, communication, sociology, politics and development to understand why we disagree about climate change. It also develops a different way of approaching the idea of climate change and of working with it. Rather than seeing “stopping climate change” as the universal project around which the world must be mobilised at all costs, the idea of climate change gives us new resources – new insights, new vocabularies, new myths – which can be used creatively in our bewildering diversity of human projects. We must use the idea of climate change to open up new spaces for innovation, change and diversity, rather than try to align the world in search of one unattainable utopia. And we must accommodate disagreement by adopting a plural approach in our responses to climate change.