Climates Multiple: Three Baselines, Two Tolerances, One Normal

Mike Hulme | 24/11/2020

On 1 January, 2021, the world’s climate will be re-set. Overnight, the world will “become” about 0.5°C warmer, the UK nearly 0.7°C warmer. This essay explains what is happening, and its wider significance. Introduction On the 1 January 2021...

Climate Data – “free exchange” or commercially priced?

Mike Hulme | 17/11/2020

This week — 16-19 November 2020 — the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) is hosting an international conference on the exchange of data about the Earth System in the 21st century. The purpose of the discussions facilitated by this conference...

First, Do No Harm

Mike Hulme | 02/11/2020

An Open Letter from health professionals and scientists to the Prime Minister, coordinated by the UK parents’ advocacy group ‘Us for Them: The Parent Voice’. “We the undersigned British health professionals and scientists, wish to express our serious concern...

Long-COVID vs Collateral-COVID

Mike Hulme | 19/10/2020

The science journal Nature ran an editorial on 8 October under the title, “Let patients help define long-lasting COVID symptoms”. In my short response to this editorial, I argue that public policy which considers only COVID mortality and COVID-morbidity...

Why is the academic left silent about the new authoritarianism?

Mike Hulme | 08/10/2020

This is a question recently asked by my colleague Dragos Simandan of Brock University, Ontario. In particular he asks, “In my home discipline of human geography I’ve been surprised by the lack of deep criticism (so far!) against the...

COVID-19: The Great Barrington Declaration

Mike Hulme | 06/10/2020

“As infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists, we have grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies, and recommend an approach we call Focused Protection.” This Declaration, authored and signed on...

“To question biomedical consensus is not to lack moral accountability”

Mike Hulme | 05/10/2020

Robert Dingwall, professor of sociology at Nottingham Trent University, argues for an opening out of the public debate about the evidential and normative basis of current UK Government COVID-19 policy. His essay appeared in Times Higher Education on 1...

Some commonsense (at last) on living with Sars-CoV-2

Mike Hulme | 21/09/2020

Amidst the panic and fear, here is a sensible perspective on living with COVID-19 risk, articulated by responsible people who understand the sociology, psychology and statistics of risk. It’s time to listen to these experts rather than epidemiological modellers...

The Finch podcast: What is climate change?

Mike Hulme | 09/09/2020

You can listen here to my podcast with The Finch, a student-based discussion platform run out of the University of Georgia, Athens, which introduces their new podcast series on climate change. I discuss the following quesitons … Is there...

Climate Change [Key Ideas in Geography]

Mike Hulme | 08/09/2020

[Image courtesy Dehlia Hannah] I have just completed the manuscript for a new book titled ‘Climate Change’, which will appear in the spring of 2021 in the Routledge Series of Key Ideas in Geography, edited by Noel Castree &...

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