New publication: ‘Climate migration myths’

Mike Hulme | 25/11/2019

I am a co-author on this new commentary in Nature Climate Change published today, led by my colleagues Ingrid Boas from Wageningen University and Carol Farbotko at Griffith University, Australia. Abstract. Misleading claims about mass migration induced by climate...

Is it too late (to stop dangerous climate change)? – an editorial

Mike Hulme | 17/10/2019

Today, WIREs Climate Change publishes on-line a special collection of nine opinion articles from hand-picked scholars around the world who each, in their own way, answer the question ‘Is it too late (to stop dangerous climate change)?’ You can...

Climate Emergency Politics is Dangerous

Mike Hulme | 04/10/2019

Read my latest essay in Issues in Science & Technology, Volume 36, Fall 2019 Issue. Summary: Declarations of emergencies create ‘states of exception,’ often justified by governments under conditions of war, insurrection, or terrorist threat. Emergencies promise the mass...

Why setting a climate deadline is dangerous

Mike Hulme | 22/07/2019

The publication of the IPCC Special Report on global warming of 1.5 oC paved the way for the rise of the political rhetoric of setting a fixed deadline for decisive actions on climate change. However, the dangers of such...

Engineering climate debt

Mike Hulme | 17/06/2019

My colleague Shin Asayama and I have co-authored this new paper, titled “Engineering climate debt: temperature overshoot and peak-shaving as risky subprime mortgage lending”, which is now available open-access online in the journal Climate Policy. In this paper, we...

Telling one story, or many? An ecolinguistic analysis of climate change stories in UK national newspaper editorials

Mike Hulme | 07/02/2019

This article, co-written with one of my Master’s students from King’s College London–Cherry Norton, has been published today in the journal Geoforum. The abstract is reproduced below. Media reporting of climate change plays a key role in shaping public...

London’s weather and the everyday: two centuries of newspaper reports

Mike Hulme | 23/08/2018

This new research article was published on 19 August 2018 in the Royal Meteorological Society’s journal Weather. (A pre-print of the article can be downloaded here). Written with one of my graduating geography students from King’s College London, Nick...

Epistemic geographies of climate change: science, space and politics

Mike Hulme | 15/08/2018

This review article, co-authored with Martin Mahony at the University of East Anglia (ex-University of Nottingham), was published on-line in December 2016 in the journal Progress in Human Geography and in print in June 2018 (Vol. 42, Issue 3,...

‘Gaps’ in knowledge: do they exist? Can they be filled?…

Mike Hulme | 22/06/2018

This essay on ‘gaps in knowledge’ is now published in the journal Environmental Humanities. I analyse calls for knowledge gap-filling around climate change by asking and answering three specific questions: What sorts of knowledge are we dealing with? How...

Framing the Challenge of Climate Change in Nature and Science Editorials

Mike Hulme | 29/05/2018

This research paper is now published in Nature Climate Change, co-authored with Noam Obermeister, Samuel Randalls and Maud Borie. Brigitte Nerlich has an associated Commentary on the paper’s significance. For those without access to Nature Climate Change, a view-only...

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New publication: ‘Climate migration myths’

Is it too late (to stop dangerous climate change)? – an editorial

Climate Emergency Politics is Dangerous

Why setting a climate deadline is dangerous

Engineering climate debt

Telling one story, or many? An ecolinguistic analysis of climate change stories in UK national newspaper editorials

London’s weather and the everyday: two centuries of newspaper reports

Epistemic geographies of climate change: science, space and politics

‘Gaps’ in knowledge: do they exist? Can they be filled?…

Framing the Challenge of Climate Change in Nature and Science Editorials