My 1992 ‘Climate Book of the Year’

Cover of the 1992 edition of "Dictionary of Global Climate Change" with the title in red and black lettering within a red border.

Maunder,W.J. (1992) Dictionary of Global Climate Change. [1st edn.] London: UCL Press. 240pp. 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 […]

‘Bring digital twins back to Earth’

A blue, digital illustration depicting a data lake with buildings, a cloud icon, graphs, and a magnifying glass—representing data storage, cloud computing, and data analysis—alongside digital twins of Earth.

In this Perspective essay published today in WIREs Climate Change, and led by philosopher of models, Andrea Saltelli, we reflect on the development of digital twins of the Earth, which we associate with a reductionist view of nature as a machine. The project of digital twins deviates from contemporary scientific paradigms in the treatment of […]

‘There is no climate niche’

Mike Hulme |

Co-written with colleagues Jan Selby and Wolfgang Cramer, you can read the full essay in the July issue of One Earth … “The idea that there exists a ‘human climate niche’ has become increasingly influential. But this idea rests on flawed and anachronistic determinist premises. It is overly climate-centric in its characterization of the challenges […]