Negotiating Climate Change in Crisis

Mike Hulme | 02/10/2021

I have two chapters in the recently published book with OpenBook Publishers in Cambridge, ‘Negotiating Climate Change in Crisis: Social Science Perspectives‘. This is a collection of 28 essays written by social scientists, and edited by Steffen Böhm, Exeter...

Balancing a budget or running a deficit? The offset regime of carbon removal and solar geoengineering under a carbon budget

Mike Hulme | 29/07/2021

In this new article, published today in the journal Climatic Change, my colleagues Shin Asayama and Nils Markusson and I examine a paradox of adopting a carbon budget as a policy tool. The very idea of a finite carbon...

Knowing like a global expert organisation

Mike Hulme | 15/04/2021

Synthesising nearly 10 years of primary research, including two PhD theses (Maud Borie and Martin Mahony) and a MSc thesis (Noam Obermeister), our systemic comparison of the ‘knowledge ways’ of the IPCC and IPBES is today published in the...

‘Climate change forever: the future of an idea’

Mike Hulme | 15/02/2021

This new essay (Vol. 136(1-4): 118-122) has appeared in the Special 2020 Issue of The Scottish Geographical Journal ‘Climate change, COP and the crucible of crisis‘. Abstract: The idea of a changing climate has been present in most cultural...

Climates Multiple: Three Baselines, Two Tolerances, One Normal

Mike Hulme | 31/12/2020

Today, Friday 1 January, 2021, the world’s climate is re-set. Overnight, the world will “become” about 0.5°C warmer, the UK nearly 0.7°C warmer. This essay, published at Academia Letters, explains what is happening, and discusses its wider significance. Mike...

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

Mike Hulme | 14/12/2020

My updated entry on the IPCC has been published (September 2020) in the International Encyclopedia of Geography (from Wiley) Abstract: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was constituted by the United Nations in 1988 to conduct periodic assessments of scientific knowledge pertaining to climate change. To date it has published five full?scale assessment reports, […]

Social scientific knowledge in times of crisis: What climate change can learn from coronavirus (and vice versa)

Mike Hulme | 29/05/2020

Read this new editorial commentary from WIREs Climate Change, written with colleagues from Orebro University, Sweden. Abstract. Crisis, by its very nature, requires decisive intervention. However, important questions can be obscured by the very immediacy of the crisis condition....

One Earth, many futures, no destination

Mike Hulme | 17/04/2020

Read my new Commentary in the journal One Earth, to mark the 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day. Since the first Earth Day 50 years ago, it has become clear that it is easier to generate scientific insight...

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...

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Negotiating Climate Change in Crisis

Balancing a budget or running a deficit? The offset regime of carbon removal and solar geoengineering under a carbon budget

Knowing like a global expert organisation

‘Climate change forever: the future of an idea’

Climates Multiple: Three Baselines, Two Tolerances, One Normal

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

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Social scientific knowledge in times of crisis: What climate change can learn from coronavirus (and vice versa)

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