Discussing a tendency in contemporary politics to reduce issues to questions of scientific measures of climate change, Mike Hulme argues for more diverse understandings of climate and change and its impacts on society. I discussed these ideas in my lecture at the London School of Economics, ‘Epistemic Pluralism and Climate Change’ on 10 March 2025, […]
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‘Prominent climate researcher warns: we should not exaggerate problems’
I was interviewed about my latest book, ‘Climate Change Isn’t Everything‘, for the Dutch national TV programme ‘Nieuwsuur‘ on Sunday 3 March. The blurb for the news story runs, “He is certainly not a climate denier. But he does...
‘The Same Drugs’ podcast … ‘Climate Change Isn’t Everything’
You can hear me talking about my latest book ‘Climate Change Isn’t Everything‘ with Canadian host Megan Murphy on her podcast ‘The Same Drugs’. The podcast was published on 3 December 2023. Mike Hulme
The IPCC and Religious Values
In this 25 minute interview, recorded for the Equipping Christian Leadership in an Age of Science (ECLAS) Project, I offer some thoughts about the relationship between climate change, science and religious thought and practice and, in particular, how the...
Podcast: ‘The Geopolitics of Climate Change’
‘OnGeopolitics’ hosts, Ali Ansari and Suzanne Raine, are joined by Professor Mike Hulme, a climate change specialist, and author of Climate Change Isn’t Everything, who argues that the current approach to climate change targets and deadlines oversimplifies a complex...
Mike Hulme on Andy Revkin’s ‘Sustain What?’ Podcast
July 6, 2023 “DESCRIPTION: Mike Hulme, a University of Cambridge geographer and longtime researcher focused on the human relationship to climate, worries that the idea of climate change might be more dangerous than the geophysical phenomenon itself. His latest...
How climate visions get constructed
In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews me about how climate visions get constructed. The conversation explores something about my career studying climate change and in particular discusses some of the methods, data, and...
In conversation … ‘Why we disagree about climate change’
As part of the 32nd University of Cambridge Alumni Festival held in September 2022, Professor Bhaskar Vira and I were in conversation about the nature of the questions that human-caused climate change is challenging us with. You can view...
Culture, Science, and the Predicament of Climate Change: In Conversation with Mike Hulme
You can listen here to my conversation with Professor Mark Pennington, director of the Centre for the Study of Governance and Society at King’s College London. The episode in the This episode in Mark’s Governance Podcast is titled “Culture,...
‘(Beyond) Scientific Rationality and the Illusion of Climate Governance’
Here are the slides accompanying a talk I gave at the Centre for Governance and Society, King’s College London, Tuesday 23 November 2021. The abstract for my talk is below. Abstract “Neither state- nor UN-centric manifestations of power —...
