‘Prominent climate researcher warns: we should not exaggerate problems’
I was interviewed about my latest book, ‘Climate Change Isn’t Everything‘, for the Dutch national TV programme ‘Nieuwsuur‘ on Sunday 3 March. The blurb for the news story runs, “He is certainly not a climate denier. But he does think that we are exaggerating the dangers of global warming. The Britisher Mike Hulme is a […]
My 1985 ‘Climate Book of the Year’
Greene,O., Percival,I. and Ridge,I. (1985) Nuclear Winter. Oxford: Polity Press. 252pp. This essay continues my series of monthly posts in which I select one ‘climate’ book to highlight and review from one of the 44 years of my professional career in climate research (starting with 1984, my first year of academic employment). The series will […]
My 1984 ‘Climate Book of the Year’
Schneider,S.H. and Londer,R. (1984) The Co-evolution of Climate and Life. San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books. 563pp. This essay initiates my new series of posts. Each month, I highlight and review one ‘climate’ book, selected from one of the 44 years of my professional career in climate research starting this month with 1984, the year […]
‘Warm Planet, Cool Heads …’
A review of ‘Climate Change Isn’t Everything’, by Nicholas Clairmont for the Fall 2023 issue of The New Atlantis magazine … “A new book warns against pushing all the world’s problems into the climate bucket”. Clairmont concludes his review … “By demanding a single answer for what to do about climate change, climatism seeks to […]
‘The Same Drugs’ podcast … ‘Climate Change Isn’t Everything’
You can hear me talking about my latest book ‘Climate Change Isn’t Everything‘ with Canadian host Megan Murphy on her podcast ‘The Same Drugs’. The podcast was published on 3 December 2023. Mike Hulme
‘The dangerous obsession with Net-Zero’
Despite a heated debate at COP28 over whether the world should be phasing-out fossil fuels altogether, the governmental delegates in the end agreeing rather to “transition away from fossil fuels”, Net Zero remains the collectively agreed target. But as I argue in this post for the Institute of Arts and Ideas, Net Zero is both […]