Climates Multiple: Three Baselines, Two Tolerances, One Normal

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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 Hulme, updated 31 December, 2020 (link refreshed 12 January 2021).

‘Window of Opportunity’

Mike Hulme | 05/12/2019

This essay will appear in Connectedness – an Incomplete Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene, edited by Sidsel Kjaerulff Rasmussen and Marianne Krogh and published later in 2020 by Strandberg Publishing, Denmark. ….. “We have a window of only 10-15 years...

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...