Publications – Recent
‘Beyond Science – Climate Change in a “Wicked” World’
‘The False Promises of Polar Geoengineering (Research)’
Climate-induced redistribution of people is not inevitable
Published today in Environmental Research Letters Authored by Ingrid Boas, Harald Sterly, Carol Farbotko, Mike Hulme and 29 co-authors Abstract As climate change intensifies, scientific and policy discussions increasingly address questions of future habitability and potential population movements. In this perspective, we caution against premature or top-down characterizations of areas as uninhabitable, or portrayals of […]
Review of David Livingstone’s ‘The Empire of Climate: A History of an Idea’ (Princeton, 2024)
‘The Unbearable Weight of Displaced Weather’
‘Small-Step Funding Models Fit Better for Climate Research’
‘Profiles in Sustainability’, an interview with Mike Hulme
‘IPCC-envy’: Why do other science-policy issues want an IPCC, and should they?
The academic publisher Sage, have launched a new climate journal, titled ‘Dialogues on Climate Change‘, edited by Dr Rob Bellamy at the University of Manchester. I was invited to write a short essay about the IPCC for the inaugural issue and this has now been published. I reproduce the abstract below: “The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel […]








