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 […]
Author: Mike Hulme
Coming early in 2024 …
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...
The IPCC and Religious Values
In this 25 minute interview, recorded for the Equipping Christian Leadership in an Age of Science (ECLAS) Project, I offer some thoughts about the relationship between climate change, science and religious thought and practice and, in particular, how the...
My three favourite reads of 2023
As part of Shepherd’s book-lover’s web-site, you can find short reviews of these three books which I loved reading over the past year. Very little to do with climate change, but really good reads.
Learning to Disagree Well
In her first Annual Address to Senate House since her inauguration in July as Cambridge Vice-Chancellor, Deborah Prentice highlighted the imperative for university students to learn to “disagree well” on difficult subjects. To facilitate this learning, Prentice intends to...
Review: “Inside the World of Climate Change Sceptics”
Read here my review, to appear in Public Understanding of Science, of Kristin Haltinner and Dilshani Sarathchandra’s new book. As I conclude my review … “[T]he art of politics is not to get everyone to agree with you, but...
‘Three institutional pathways to envision the future of the IPCC’
Our new Commentary about the future of the IPCC has been published in Nature Climate Change. The author team is almost identical to that which contributed to the CUP open-access book ‘A Critical Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on...
“We Need Scientific Dissidents Now More Than Ever”
This brilliant short essay, posted on The Chronicle of Higher Education website two days ago, is written by Eric Winsberg is a professor of philosophy at the University of South Florida and a visiting professor of history and philosophy...
Podcast: ‘The Geopolitics of Climate Change’
‘OnGeopolitics’ hosts, Ali Ansari and Suzanne Raine, are joined by Professor Mike Hulme, a climate change specialist, and author of Climate Change Isn’t Everything, who argues that the current approach to climate change targets and deadlines oversimplifies a complex...
Review of ‘Climate Change Isn’t Everything’ by Dr Volker Hahn
“If Hulme’s readers concede that the issue of climate change involves more ambiguity than perceivable in the public discourse, then this book will have served a purpose”. This review is written by Dr. Volker Hahn, a science journalist and a science communication expert in Leipzig, Germany. He has a Ph.D. in biogeochemistry from the Friedrich Schiller […]
