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My 2009 ‘Climate Book of the Year’

Partial book cover with large blue text reading "SCIENCE AS A CONTACT SPORT" and smaller gold text "Inside the Battle to Save Earth’s Climate," a 2009 climate book named Book of the Year.

Schneider,S.H. (2009) Science as a Contact Sport: Inside the Battle to Save Earth’s Climate. Washington, DC: National Geographic Society. 295pp.   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, […]

‘Beyond Science – Climate Change in a “Wicked” World’

Book cover titled "Making Geography Matter: The Past and Present of a Changing Discipline," edited by Noel Castree, Trevor Barnes, and Jennifer Salmond.

Following the link below, you can read the above autobiographical essay which appeared as Chapter 17 in the edited collection of essays ‘Making Geography Matter: The Past and Present of a Changing Discipline‘ (Routledge, 2025), edited by Noel Castree, Trevor Barnes and Jennifer Salmond. What is the purpose of Geography? What do geographers study and […]

‘When Temperature Became Global: A Brief History of the World’s Most Important Index’

Line graph showing global surface air temperature changes from 1901 to 1987, illustrating a general rise in this world’s most important index over time.

Yesterday, my colleague Sarah Dry and I submitted the full manuscript of our forthcoming book ‘When Temperature Became Global’ to Princeton University Press. Following peer review, and any subsequent revisions, the book will enter production later this year and should hit the bookstores in the first quarter of 2027. Here is a brief synopsis of […]

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Solar geoengineering for profit

Mike Hulme |
The Israeli-U.S. startup Stardust Solutions announced last week that it raised $60 million in venture capital in its latest funding round – the largest venture investment to date for a for-profit company developing solar geoengineering technology, particularly injection of...