A New Journal - WIREs Climate Change

WIREs Climate Change is a new journal edited by Mike Hulme, climate scientist at University of East Anglia. It promises encyclopaediac inter-disciplinarity and an embrace of disagreement. The diverse topic areas include Climate, History, Society, Culture; Climate, Ecology, and Conservation; and The Social Status of Climate Change Knowledge. All articles appear to be open access, thus far.

Hulme, from an interview about the journal's launch:

I actually no longer think that we can have one overarching framework that will allow an adequate range of actions to be taking place. So my argument at the moment is to diversify. … to have a plurality of devices, rather than thinking that one -size protocol will attend to all the problems that climate change raises.

And from his introductory essay, "Mapping climate change knowledge":

Science - in a broad interpretation of the practice - does not speak with one voice on climate change. ... [E]xamples of contestation emphasise the need for stronger interactions between the traditional climate disciplines of meteorology, oceanography, ecology, and economics on the one hand, and the social sciences and the interpretative humanities on the other. The perspectives and contributions of these latter disciplines are now probably more important than the climate sciences to ongoing public and policy debates.