At Last: The Political Left Speaks Out

Mike Hulme | 22/12/2021

As the old adage says, ‘Better late than never’. I think of this in relation to a number of commentaries and essays that have appeared in recent days from the political Left, that at last begin to see the...

Culture, Science, and the Predicament of Climate Change: In Conversation with Mike Hulme

Mike Hulme | 09/12/2021

You can listen here to my conversation with Professor Mark Pennington, director of the Centre for the Study of Governance and Society at King’s College London. The episode in the This episode in Mark’s Governance Podcast is titled “Culture,...

‘(Beyond) Scientific Rationality and the Illusion of Climate Governance’

Mike Hulme | 24/11/2021

Here are the slides accompanying a talk I gave at the Centre for Governance and Society, King’s College London, Tuesday 23 November 2021. The abstract for my talk is below. Abstract “Neither state- nor UN-centric manifestations of power —...

Choose Carefully Your Analogies for Communicating the Challenges of Climate Change

Mike Hulme | 15/11/2021

Among the media coverage of last week’s COP26 meeting in Glasgow one particular analogy stood out to me. It claimed that the Glasgow Climate Pact was a failure by analogy of having a 2 metre chasm to jump across...

Mike Hulme | 15/11/2021

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...

COP26 – So is it “too late” (to stop dangerous climate change)?

Mike Hulme | 14/11/2021

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

Mike Hulme | 10/11/2021

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

Mike Hulme | 07/11/2021

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?

Mike Hulme | 18/10/2021

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’

Mike Hulme | 18/10/2021

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...

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At Last: The Political Left Speaks Out

Culture, Science, and the Predicament of Climate Change: In Conversation with Mike Hulme

‘(Beyond) Scientific Rationality and the Illusion of Climate Governance’

Choose Carefully Your Analogies for Communicating the Challenges of Climate Change

COP26 – So is it “too late” (to stop dangerous climate change)?

How to Frame Climate Change

Preventing Future School Closures

‘The Trick’: What Did Climategate Mean?

‘The Retreat of Scientific Debate’