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Re-Socialising a Vaccinated World Requires Political Struggle

Mike Hulme | 07/02/2021 | 1 Comment

There is a naïve assumption that mass vaccination will allow social life in the UK to return to normal. It is far from obvious that this is so. As the authoritarian regulation of public life extends and continues, the...

The word "new normal" spelled out in wooden cubes, reflecting multiple baselines and tolerances in climates.

Climates Multiple: Three Baselines, Two Tolerances, One Normal

Mike Hulme | 31/12/2020

Today, Friday 1 January, 2021, the world’s climate is re-set. Overnight, the world will “become” about 0.5°C warmer, the UK nearly 0.7°C warmer. This essay, published at Academia Letters, explains what is happening, and discusses its wider significance. Mike...

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Mike Hulme on ScienceWhys: A podcast from the Nobel Conference at Gustavus Adolphus College

Mike Hulme | 28/12/2020

When big scientific questions meet big ethical questions, the waters can get pretty choppy. In ScienceWhys, Lisa Heldke, philosopher and director of the Nobel Conference at Gustavus Adolphus College, interviews scientists, researchers, scholars and thinkers about how science and...

The cover of WIREs Climate Change Vol 12(1) 2021 addresses climate change.

Latest articles in WIREs Climate Change, Vol 12(1), 2021

Mike Hulme | 17/12/2020

The latest issue of WIREs Climate Change, Volume 12(1) 2021, is now available on-line. The 10 review articles in this issue include Dana Fisher and Sohana Nasrin on climate activism and its effects, Mike Schafer and James Painter...

‘Everybody Will be Affected by Climate Change’

Mike Hulme | 15/12/2020

“In 2009, Dr Mike Hulme, Professor of Human Geography at the University of Cambridge, found himself at the centre of a media storm known as Climategate. A leak of scientists’ emails, the majority of which belonging to four scientists,...

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

Mike Hulme | 14/12/2020

My updated entry on the IPCC has been published (September 2020) in the International Encyclopedia of Geography (from Wiley) Abstract: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was constituted by the United Nations in 1988 to conduct periodic assessments of scientific knowledge pertaining to climate change. To date it has published five full?scale assessment reports, […]

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The Unbearable Placelessness of Zoom

Mike Hulme | 12/12/2020

During 2020, Zoom (and its equivalents) has become for many people the dominant medium through which human encounter and interaction is experienced. This is especially true of the academy. Despite its democratising potential, I have struggled to adapt to...

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Navigating the Values of Climate Change

Mike Hulme | 03/12/2020

In the first episode of this new podcast series from the University of Cambridge – Mind Over Chatter – I explore the historical, ethical and political dimensions of climate change, along with Sarah Dry and Matthew Agarwala. Climate change...

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Academic Peer Reviewing: Saying ‘Yes’ or Saying ‘No’

Mike Hulme | 27/11/2020

Have you just received an invitation to review a submitted journal manuscript, or a grant application? Not sure whether or not to accept the invitation? You’ve got way too much work on your desk already. What should you decide?...

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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...

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Re-Socialising a Vaccinated World Requires Political Struggle

Climates Multiple: Three Baselines, Two Tolerances, One Normal

Mike Hulme on ScienceWhys: A podcast from the Nobel Conference at Gustavus Adolphus College

Latest articles in WIREs Climate Change, Vol 12(1), 2021

‘Everybody Will be Affected by Climate Change’

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

The Unbearable Placelessness of Zoom

Navigating the Values of Climate Change

Academic Peer Reviewing: Saying ‘Yes’ or Saying ‘No’

Climate Data – “free exchange” or commercially priced?