A scientist on a bicycle stands next to a globe covered in snow, exploring the impacts of climate change.

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,...

The creation of Adam by Michelangelo fills knowledge gaps.

‘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...

The cover of the Nature magazine, featuring climate change.

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...

A small island on the edge of the world, nestled in the middle of a body of water.

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...

An image of a volcano erupting from the earth, encapsulating the lesser of two evils phenomenon.

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...

A damaged building with a portrait of Syria's president, a consequence of the Syrian Civil War.

Climate Change and the Syrian Civil War Revisited

Mike Hulme | 07/09/2017 | 2 Comments

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...

A colorful Rubik's cube on a white background, symbolizing a puzzle beyond counting.

Beyond Counting Climate Consensus

Mike Hulme | 25/07/2017

This peer-reviewed essay, written with colleagues from the University of Nottingham, has just been published in the journal Environmental Communication, together with an associated press release. The abstract reads: “Several studies have been using quantified consensus within climate science...

A woman in a suit standing at a podium, discussing climate prediction in the UK.

Institutionalising climate prediction in the UK, 1988-1992

Mike Hulme | 15/10/2016

Mahony,M. and Hulme,M. (2016) Modelling and the nation: Institutionalising climate prediction in the UK, 1988-1992 Minerva 54(4), 445-470 doi:10.1007/s11024-016-9302-0 Using newly released archival materials and recently conducted interviews with key actors, we reconstruct negotiations between UK climate scientists and...

1.5C and climate research after the Paris Agreement

Mike Hulme | 01/02/2016

(2 February) ‘1.5C and climate research after the Paris Agreement‘ Read my commentary in Nature Climate Change, published yesterday. The Paris Agreement contains an ambition to limit global warming to no more than 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, changing the context for policy-relevant research and extending a challenge to the IPCC and researchers.

‘Knowledge pluralism’ [and climate governance]

Mike Hulme | 23/11/2015

(23 November) NEW Book chapter. ‘Knowledge pluralism‘ has now been published as Chapter 49 in Backstrand,K. and Lovbrand,E. (2015) Research Handbook on Climate Governance Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 630pp.

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Mike Hulme

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Publications – Recent

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

Beyond Counting Climate Consensus

Institutionalising climate prediction in the UK, 1988-1992

1.5C and climate research after the Paris Agreement

‘Knowledge pluralism’ [and climate governance]