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Public Lecture : Professor Mike Hulme |
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Professor Mike Hulme
Tuesday 7 September 2010 at 7pm
at the National Oceanography Centre Southampton
Presentation Slides available here
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.
Mike Hulme is a Professor of Climate Change in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia (UEA). His 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. He is one of the most highly cited climate scientists in the world.
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