‘Making Climate History’ – Oral History Interviews

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As part of the Leverhulme Trust research project ‘Making Climate History’**, which ran from 2019 to 2025, I oversaw the oral history element of the project which enabled us to conduct interviews with eleven climate scientists, and one climate journalist, who were active in the science of climate change in the 1970s and early 1980s. […]

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, […]

‘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...