As part of the Australian Museum’s HumanNature series of public talks, I shall be speaking on Monday 23 April, at 6pm in the Museum, on the topic ‘Cultures of Climate’. In this talk, based on my book Weathered: Cultures of Climate, I examine how different cultures give shape and meaning to the idea of climate. […]
Author: Mike Hulme
‘We Always Get the Weather We Deserve’: The Tenacious Grip of Moral Accountability
[This essay is forthcoming in Gnosis, The Italian Journal of Intelligence.] Abstract: Different cosmologies, religious thought, political ideologies, social practices and scientific paradigms of knowledge all contribute to the rich cultural matrix in which theories of climatic change and...
Weather-Worlds in the Anthropocene and the End of Climate
This new essay has been written as a contribution to a collaborative double issue of the journal Weber with the Rachel Carson Center, on the theme ‘Transformations of the Anthropocene’. It is scheduled to appear in autumn 2018 (Issue...
Calculating the Incalculable: Is SAI the Lesser of Two Evils?
In a forthcoming article in Ethics and International Affairs, Christopher J. Preston uses the doctrine of double effect to claim that hypothetical climate engineers might very well be less culpable for climate harms than those who continue to emit...
Climate Change and the Syrian Civil War Revisited
This peer-reviewed journal article, coauthored with colleagues Jan Selby (University of Sussex), Omar Dahi (Hampshire College, USA) and Christiane Frohlich (University of Hamburg), is now published in the journal Political Geography. The abstract reads: “For proponents of the view...
Beyond Counting Climate Consensus
This peer-reviewed essay, written with colleagues from the University of Nottingham, has just been published in the journal Environmental Communication, together with an associated press release. The abstract reads: “Several studies have been using quantified consensus within climate science...
Climate Change and the Significance of Religion
Published in today’s issue of Economic & Political Weekly in India, this Essay argues that there is a growing sense that religion has a part to play in shaping our responses to climate change. Merely understanding climate science, or...
On the ethics of fossil fuel divestment – a response to Willis Jenkins
A student of history and journalism from the University of Montana recently wrote to me about climate change and fossil fuel divestment (FFD). She had read and studied my arguments against FFD and claimed to appreciate the different sides...
One Man Does Not Control the Climate
It is important not to over-react to the news that Donald Trump wishes to withdraw the USA from the Paris Agreement and seek to renegotiate a ‘fairer deal’ for America. The wailing and grieving around the media that has accompanied yesterday’s announcement is exactly the sort of reaction that Trump is seeking to provoke. It […]
Energy Humanities Podcast
Listen to me talking about ‘the many meanings of climate’ (starts at 10:00 minutes), recorded with Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer for their Cultures of Energy blog, part of the Centre for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human...
