‘Gaps’ in knowledge: do they exist? Can they be filled?…

Mike Hulme | 22/06/2018

This essay on ‘gaps in knowledge’ is now published in the journal Environmental Humanities. I analyse calls for knowledge gap-filling around climate change by asking and answering three specific questions: What sorts of knowledge are we dealing with? How...

Latest articles in WIREs Climate Change, Vol 9(4), 2018

Mike Hulme | 18/06/2018

The latest issue of WIREs Climate Change, Volume 9(4) 2018, is now available on-line. The 9 review articles in this issue include Matt Nisbet on US philanthropic giving to climate and energy research, Oliver Geden and colleagues on...

London’s weather and the everyday: two centuries of newspaper reports

Mike Hulme | 07/06/2018

This new research article has been accepted for publication in the Royal Meteorological Society’s journal Weather. Written with one of my graduating geography students from King’s College London, Nick Burgess, the study surveys 200 years of London’s weather and...

Framing the Challenge of Climate Change in Nature and Science Editorials

Mike Hulme | 29/05/2018

This research paper is now published in Nature Climate Change, co-authored with Noam Obermeister, Samuel Randalls and Maud Borie. Brigitte Nerlich has an associated Commentary on the paper’s significance. For those without access to Nature Climate Change, a view-only...

Geoengineering at ‘the edge of the world’

Mike Hulme | 15/05/2018

This new paper, co-authored with Kate Gannon from LSE and based on her PhD completed under my supervision, is now on-line in the journal GEO: Geography and Environment. Drawing upon ethnography amongst the Haida peoples of British Columbia, it...

Companion to Environmental Studies

Mike Hulme | 09/05/2018

This new student reference book has just been published by Routledge, ‘A companion to environmental studies‘, edited by Noel Castree, Jim Proctor and myself. The book presents a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of around 150 key issues, debates, concepts,...

‘The climate fetish’

Mike Hulme | 30/04/2018

Listen to this recent programme from Australian Broadcast Corporation’s weekly radio show ‘Science Friction’ in which I discuss some of the ideas behind my book Weathered and also reflect on the wider framing of the public climate change debate. ...

‘Disagreement is always good’ – an interview with Mike Hulme

Mike Hulme | 26/02/2018

Following my talk to the K3 Congress on Climate Change Communication in Salzburg last October, I was interviewed by the Deutsches Klima Konsortium (K3) website: “After the conference, author and professor Mike Hulme sat down with us to talk about...

Cultures of Climate – Sydney, 23 April

Mike Hulme | 26/02/2018

As part of the Australian Museum’s HumanNature series of public talks, I shall be speaking on Monday 23 April, at 6pm in the Museum, on the topic ‘Cultures of Climate’. In this talk, based on my book Weathered: Cultures of Climate, I examine how different cultures give shape and meaning to the idea of climate. […]

‘We Always Get the Weather We Deserve’: The Tenacious Grip of Moral Accountability

Mike Hulme | 25/01/2018

[This essay is forthcoming in Gnosis, The Italian Journal of Intelligence.] Abstract: Different cosmologies, religious thought, political ideologies, social practices and scientific paradigms of knowledge all contribute to the rich cultural matrix in which theories of climatic change and...

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