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, […]
Talks
‘(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 —...
Trust and Mistrust of Climate Science
You can watch this special Sustain What episode hosted on behalf of the Mellon-Sawyer Seminar on Trust and Mistrust of Science and Experts. (Andrew Revkin, normally the moderator of these sessions, is one of three guests this time, along...
The Environment: Can the Future Ever Be Green?
The recording of this on-line event is now available to view here. Hosted by Christian Evidence, 16 March 2021, 8-9pm In the fourth of a series of webinars conversations, Questions of our Times, Professor Mike Hulme, Professor of Human...
COVID-19 behind the numbers – statistics, models and decision-making
You can view this recorded webinar delivered on-line on Thursday 14 May for Cambridge Conversations, the Alumni Programme. “Unpick the numbers behind COVID-19 with Sir David Spiegelhalter, one of the world’s foremost biostatisticians, and Mike Hulme, professor of human...
Beyond climate solutionism
You can watch my speech at the 2019 Nobel Conference, ‘Climate Changed: Facing our Future’, hosted by Gustavus Adolphus College, Minnesota. My talk, titled ‘Beyond Climate Solutionism: Against the Metrification of Climate Change’, was followed by a panel discussion...
Who Controls the World’s Climate? God, Nature or People?
I shall be delivering the newly inaugurated Derek Burke Memorial Science and Faith Lecture on Monday 14th October at 7pm in Norwich Cathedral. Entry is free and no need to register. Over the centuries, the vagaries of weather and...
The Nobel Conference: Climate Changed
From 24-25 September, I shall be speaking at the 2019 Nobel Conference at Adolphus Gustavus College at St.Peter, Minnesota. My talk ‘Beyond Climate Solutionism’ will be live-streamed here. The Conference theme this year is ‘Climate Change: Facing Our Future’...
Cultures of Climate – Sydney, 23 April
As part of the Australian Museum’s HumanNature series of public talks, I shall be speaking on Monday 23 April, at 6pm in the Museum, on the topic ‘Cultures of Climate’. In this talk, based on my book Weathered: Cultures of Climate, I examine how different cultures give shape and meaning to the idea of climate. […]
The cultural functions of climate
On 27 October 2016 I delivered the opening distinguished lecture of the 2016/17 session at the Institute of Social Sciences – Instituto Ciências Sociais – University of Lisbon. Drawing upon my new book ‘Weathered’ and titled ‘The cultural functions...
