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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. Any and all social, political and ecological phenomena 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'. With complex political and ethical challenges so narrowly framed, arresting climate change becomes 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 identify 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 paying serious attention to issues as varied as poverty, liberty, biodiversity loss, inequality, and diplomacy. We must not live as though climate alone determines our present and our future."

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- List of abbreviations -- Glossary -- Introduction: Why and how to debate climate change -- 1. Is climate change the most important challenge of our times? -- YES: Because climate change is changing everything -- NO: Because we cannot address climate change without addressing inequality -- PART I: What do we need to know? -- 2. Is the concept of 'tipping point' helpful for describing and communicating possible climate futures? -- YES: It draws attention to the possibility of inadequate response to non-incremental change -- NO: It misleads as to the nature of climate change -- 3. Should individual extreme weather events be attributed to human agency? -- YES: Attribution provides a realistic view of the impacts of climate change and can improve local decision-making and planning -- NO: Attributing individual extreme events to anthropogenic factors is not as useful as you might think -- 4. Does climate change drive violence, conflict and human migration? -- YES: Historically it does, over large scales of time and space -- NO: Other social, economic and political factors are nearly always more important -- 5. Can the social cost of carbon be calculated? -- YES: The social cost of carbon is a simple and practical tool -- NO: There are fundamental problems with cost-benefit analysis when applied to climate change -- PART II: What should we do? -- 6. Are carbon markets the best way to address climate change? -- YES: Markets are flexible, efficient and politically feasible -- NO: Carbon markets are theoretically flawed and practically ineffective -- 7. Should future investments in energy technology be limited exclusively to renewables?.

Über kaum etwas wird so viel diskutiert wie über den Klimawandel – leider ohne sinnvolle Ergebnisse. Für Mike Hulme ist er weit mehr als ein naturwissenschaftliches Phänomen; der Klimawandel ist ein Medienspektakel, ein Zankapfel verschiedener Regierungen und Lobbyisten, zu dem man je nach Wertekodex, Sozialstatus oder Konfession unterschiedlicher Meinung sein kann.Zu allererst ist er jedoch eine kulturelle Herausforderung – weshalb technische Ansätze zu seiner »Lösung« zu kurz greifen und Konferenzen zur »Rettung der Welt« reihenweise ins Leere laufen. Hulmes Buch hilft zu verstehen, was uns am erfolgreichen Handeln hindert und plädiert für eine Neubewertung des Phänomens Klimawandel.

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

AbstractChristopher J. Preston's use of the doctrine of double effect to claim that hypothetical climate engineers might very well be less culpable for climate harms than those who continue to emit greenhouse gases is unpersuasive. His argument rests shakily on the ability to determine and quantify climate harms and to distinguish forensically between their causes. He is also largely silent about the distributional effects of these harms and their ethical and political ramifications.