My 1988 ‘Climate Book of the Year’
Grove,J.M. (1988) The Little Ice Age. (1st Edn.) London: Methuen. 498pp. 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 […]
‘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 1986 ‘Climate Book of the Year’
My 1985 ‘Climate Book of the Year’
My 1984 ‘Climate Book of the Year’
Climate Books of the Years, from 1984 to 2027: A Personal View
‘Warm Planet, Cool Heads …’
‘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 […]








