Author: Mike Hulme

The new Atlantis - Warm Planet, Cool Heads.

‘Warm Planet, Cool Heads …’

Mike Hulme |
A review of ‘Climate Change Isn’t Everything’, by Nicholas Clairmont for the Fall 2023 issue of The New Atlantis magazine … “A new book warns against pushing all the world’s problems into the climate bucket”. Clairmont concludes his review...

‘The dangerous obsession with Net-Zero’

Mike Hulme |

Despite a heated debate at COP28 over whether the world should be phasing-out fossil fuels altogether, the governmental delegates in the end agreeing rather to “transition away from fossil fuels”, Net Zero remains the collectively agreed target. But as I argue in this post for the Institute of Arts and Ideas, Net Zero is both […]

A collage of various books and brochures on a white background, coming early in 2024.

Coming early in 2024 …

Mike Hulme |
I will be starting a new series of book review essays on these pages early in the New Year, each month selecting one significant climate book to review in successive years from 1984 — the beginning of my professional...