Diagram illustrating solar geoengineering methods: airplanes release aerosols in the stratosphere and ships spray sea salt into clouds, both reflecting sunlight to cool the Earth.

ARIA’s £57million crazy techo-solution to stop climate change

Mike Hulme | 07/05/2025

The UK Government’s new DARPA style research agency–Advanced Research and Innovation Agency, ARIA–today announced 21 research projects, costing the British tax-payer £57 million, aimed at developing technologies to ‘cool the climate’, so-called solar geoengineering. I have been studying and...

A person walks near large industrial fans at a carbon capture facility; adjacent text reads, "The Climate Paradox: Why We Need to Reset Action on Climate Change and Achieve Net-Zero.

What Tony Blair Gets Right About Net-Zero

Mike Hulme | 01/05/2025

The latest report from the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, ‘The Climate Paradox: Why We Need To Reset Action on Climate Change’ has caused an almighty row within the Labour Party and amongst the UK’s climate commentariat and...

Book cover with the title "The Carbon War: Dispatches from the End of the Oil Century" in bold red and black text on a white background, recognized as a standout 1999 Climate Book.

My 1999 ‘Climate Book of the Year’

Mike Hulme | 30/04/2025

Leggett,J. (1999) The Carbon War: Dispatches from the End of the Oil Century. London: Penguin Books. 337pp. This essay continues my series of monthly posts in which I select one ‘climate’ book to highlight and review from one of...

The book cover of "The Ice People" by Maggie Gee, noted as a groundbreaking 1998 climate book, features prominently against a striking purple background.

My 1998 ‘Climate Book of the Year’

Mike Hulme | 31/03/2025

Gee,M. (1998) The Ice People. London: Richard Cohen Books. 319pp. 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...

Logos for UEA Norwich, UMIST, and Southampton Oceanography Centre proudly celebrate 25 years of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research: integrated research for sustainable solutions.

The Tyndall Centre at 25 Years: Bidding for the Contract

Mike Hulme | 22/03/2025

Twenty-five years ago today – on Wednesday 22 March 2000 – I arrived at the Institute of Directors at 116 Pall Mall, London, at 10.30am in the morning prepared to deliver the most important presentation of my life. I...

‘Small-Step Funding Models Fit Better for Climate Research’

Mike Hulme | 17/03/2025

I have this item of Correspondence appear in Nature Climate Change today. I contrast the research funding model of the UK Government’s Advanced Research and Innovation Agency (ARIA) with the funding model that established, 25 years ago this summer,...

Is the quest for net-zero a form of scientism?

Mike Hulme | 14/03/2025

Discussing a tendency in contemporary politics to reduce issues to questions of scientific measures of climate change, Mike Hulme argues for more diverse understandings of climate and change and its impacts on society. I discussed these ideas in my lecture at the London School of Economics, ‘Epistemic Pluralism and Climate Change’ on 10 March 2025, […]

Text on a desert background reads, "The Heat is On," evoking the intense atmosphere reminiscent of 1997, amidst dry trees and sand.

My 1997 ‘Climate Book of the Year’

Mike Hulme | 03/03/2025

Gelbspan,R. (1997) The Heat Is On: The High Stakes Battle Over Earth’s Threatened Climate. New York: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company Inc. 278pp. This essay continues my series of monthly posts in which I select one ‘climate’ book to highlight and...

Amidst green leaves, Mike Hulme stands outdoors with his signature glasses and grey hair, wearing a blue sweater over a purple shirt. He is poised for an interview, adding depth to the Profiles in Sustainability series.

‘Profiles in Sustainability’, an interview with Mike Hulme

Mike Hulme | 26/02/2025

The journal Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development centers on sustainability science and its contribution to guiding policy and practice. To this end, the journal is exploring the device of interviews to enable conversations to flourish. In this...

This graph, featured in a new paper on climate action, illustrates the annual sum of monthly meteorological station records from 1750 to 2025. Lines depict continents; with North America peaking highest, followed by Asia and Europe.

New paper, ‘Climate data for climate action’

Mike Hulme | 14/02/2025

Published last week in the journal ‘Climate Action‘, this article draws attenton to the challenges of political instability and geopolitical tension, together with rising nationalism, bureaucracy and economic pressure, to the free access to and exchange of scientific data...

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ARIA’s £57million crazy techo-solution to stop climate change

What Tony Blair Gets Right About Net-Zero

My 1999 ‘Climate Book of the Year’

My 1998 ‘Climate Book of the Year’

The Tyndall Centre at 25 Years: Bidding for the Contract

‘Small-Step Funding Models Fit Better for Climate Research’

Is the quest for net-zero a form of scientism?

My 1997 ‘Climate Book of the Year’

‘Profiles in Sustainability’, an interview with Mike Hulme

New paper, ‘Climate data for climate action’