Meeting Vivienne Westwood
Vivienne Westwood died on the 29 December 2022. A larger than life character, I once had the opportunity to meet her – at her suggestion – to discuss her thoughts about climate change and a campaigning TV series, to...
Author: Mike Hulme
‘Climate Change Isn’t Everything: Liberating Climate Politics From Alarmism’
My new book about the ideology of climatism will be published by Polity Press in late spring 2023. The manuscript has now been signed off and the book in production. A brief synopsis is provided below … “The changing...
Published today as open-access …
A Critical Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is published today, 8th December, by Cambridge University Press as open-access. The book is edited by myself and Kari De Pryck and is available fully open-access. Click here for...
In conversation … ‘Why we disagree about climate change’
As part of the 32nd University of Cambridge Alumni Festival held in September 2022, Professor Bhaskar Vira and I were in conversation about the nature of the questions that human-caused climate change is challenging us with. You can view...
‘Grasping the Intangible – Our Climate Change Predicament’
In the summer of 2021, my book ‘Climate Change’ was published by Routledge in their Key Ideas in Geography series. It has been selling steadily in the months following and is now being picked up on reading lists around the world and through citations. It has also been reviewed in a few places, the latest […]
Previous PhD Students
I have acted as primary supervisor for 18 PhD students, all of whom have successfully completed their doctorates. I have also been external or internal examiner for a further 28 PhD theses, in the UK, Australia, Canada and the Netherlands. Noam Obermeister (2023): How and what do science advisers learn? Insights from environmental science-policy in […]
The 2022 UK Summer In Long-Term Perspective
With the summer season in the UK now over, it is instructive to place the hot, dry summer we have experienced into the longest possible historical perspective. How hot was the summer of 2022 as a whole? How dry...
Has the latest climate change issue-attention cycle peaked?
Last month, Sky News moved its flagship daily climate show from its primetime slot of 8.30pm into the dead of the afternoon, a 15-minute weekday airing at 3.30pm. (It also announced that a new in-depth weekend programme would be...
‘Climate alone won’t define future worlds’
In response to Zeke Hausfather’s and colleagues’ commentary in Nature on 4 May 2022 about the problem of “hot” climate models, I had published today in Nature a short ‘correspondence’ item. The item is reproduced below. My point was to focus on their (rather casual) claim that “…despite some differences related to the rate of […]
Why Closing Schools During The Pandemic Was Child Abuse
The Spectator this week ran the story I reproduce below, in which journalist Ross Clark asked the question ‘How much did the pandemic harm children?’ Actually the question being answered by Clark really is, ‘How much did Governments’ closures...
