My selection of five great reads about the contested meanings of climate change has been posted at Shepherd’s, a new platform seeking to re-create something of the joy and serendipity of browsing the shelves of a real bookstore. As...
Author: Mike Hulme
COP26 – So is it “too late” (to stop dangerous climate change)?
Just over two years ago, in October 2019, WIREs Climate Change published an on-line special collection of nine opinion articles from hand-picked scholars around the world who each, in their own way, answered the question ‘Is it too late...
How to Frame Climate Change
This interview for the ‘Sustainability Agenda’ podcast with Fergal Byrne covers my expectations for COP26, the role and importance of the COPs in general, and the dangers of an overly scientific approach to climate change– a reductionist framing of...
Preventing Future School Closures
Earlier this year I wrote a blog post here titled, ‘Re-socialising a vaccinated world requires political struggle‘. I am pleased to draw attention to one small success in such a struggle, which in this case is to make it...
‘The Trick’: What Did Climategate Mean?
Tonight, the BBC broadcast ‘The Trick’, their commissioned TV drama of the 2009 Climategate affair. The drama focused on the relationship between Professor Phil Jones and his wife Ruth, and the handling of the controversy by Phil’s employer –...
‘The Retreat of Scientific Debate’
Just over a year ago, I was one of about 50 original co-signatories to the Great Barrington Declaration, a short statement which challenged the prevailing policy orthodoxy that societal lockdowns were the only way to combat the risks to...
Prospective PhD Students
Owing to my planned retirement in 2027, I am no longer accepting approaches from new PhD students. Current PhD students: Friederike Hartz (awarded October 2025: funded by AHRC and Pembroke College): Taking responsibility for climate knowledge in a warming world. Exploring responsibility assembled in and around the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Madeleine Ary Hahne […]
Negotiating Climate Change in Crisis
I have two chapters in the recently published book with OpenBook Publishers in Cambridge, ‘Negotiating Climate Change in Crisis: Social Science Perspectives‘. This is a collection of 28 essays written by social scientists, and edited by Steffen Böhm, Exeter...
Reading Climate Change Backwards: Five Varieties
Climate change is everywhere. In everyday speech, protest, advocacy, science, the arts, business and diplomacy. And there are of course some physical correlates to this discursive reality of climate change, namely changes occurring in the physical dynamics of the...
Advice to Christian Geography Professors
Earlier this year, I was invited by the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Christian Scholar’s Review, Professor Perry Glanzer, to contribute to a series of essays entitled, “Advice to Christian [fill in the academic discipline].” Glanzer’s inspiration for the series...
