Why setting a climate deadline is dangerous

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 deadline rhetoric suggest the need for the IPCC to take responsibility for its report and openly […]

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...

Geoengineering at ‘the edge of the world’

Mike Hulme | 15/05/2018

This new paper, co-authored with Kate Gannon from LSE and based on her PhD completed under my supervision, is now on-line in the journal GEO: Geography and Environment. Drawing upon ethnography amongst the Haida peoples of British Columbia, it...

Calculating the Incalculable: Is SAI the Lesser of Two Evils?

Mike Hulme | 12/10/2017

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

Mike Hulme | 07/09/2017 | 1 Comment

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...

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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

Geoengineering at ‘the edge of the world’

Calculating the Incalculable: Is SAI the Lesser of Two Evils?

Climate Change and the Syrian Civil War Revisited