Making Climate History A new Leverhulme-funded project in the Departments of History and Philosophy of Science and Geography, University of Cambridge We are soliciting applications for these new poisitions to work on this project (note the different closing dates): • One research and teaching associate in the Dept. of Geography (2020–24) – closing date 9 March […]
Author: Mike Hulme
Climate Change in Court
Last Friday, 17 January, a US court “reluctantly” quashed a climate lawsuit brought by 21 young people against the US government. The judge determined that “the plaintiffs’ impressive case for redress must be presented to the political branches of...
Major Publications 2019
Asayama,S. and Hulme,M. (2019) Engineering climate debt: temperature overshoot and peak shaving as risky subprime mortgage lending Climate Policy 19(8), 937-946 Asayama,S., Bellamy,R., Geden,O., Pearce,W. and Hulme,M. (2019) Why setting a climate deadline is dangerous Nature Climate Change 9(8), 570-572 Boas,I., Farbotko,C., Adams,H. …. Black,R. and Hulme,M. (2019) Climate migration myths Nature Climate Change 9(12), […]
Published today: Contemporary Climate Change Debates
Contemporary Climate Change Debates: A Student Primer is published today—Thursday 12 December–and your pre-ordered copies will be on their way to you. Routledge are presently offering a special publication price when ordered through them of £27.99 for paperback and...
Making Climate History
This new project is funded by a Leverhulme Trust research project grant and was awarded jointly to me (co-PI) with Dr Richard Staley (PI) and Professor Simon Schaffer (co-PI) from the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science...
‘Window of Opportunity’
This essay will appear in Connectedness – an Incomplete Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene, edited by Sidsel Kjaerulff Rasmussen and Marianne Krogh and published later in 2020 by Strandberg Publishing, Denmark. ….. “We have a window of only 10-15 years...
New publication: ‘Climate migration myths’
I am a co-author on this new commentary in Nature Climate Change published today, led by my colleagues Ingrid Boas from Wageningen University and Carol Farbotko at Griffith University, Australia. Abstract. Misleading claims about mass migration induced by climate...
Climategate – 2pm on 19 November 2009
Ten years ago today, at 2pm in the afternoon on Thursday 19 November 2009, I received a circular email from the deputy-head of my School at the University of East Anglia. It read: “There seems to have been a...
Is it too late (to stop dangerous climate change)? – an editorial
Today, WIREs Climate Change publishes on-line a special collection of nine opinion articles from hand-picked scholars around the world who each, in their own way, answer the question ‘Is it too late (to stop dangerous climate change)?’ You can...
Climate Emergency Politics is Dangerous
Read my latest essay in Issues in Science & Technology, Volume 36, Fall 2019 Issue. Summary: Declarations of emergencies create ‘states of exception,’ often justified by governments under conditions of war, insurrection, or terrorist threat. Emergencies promise the mass...