Books

‘When Temperature Became Global: A Brief History of the World’s Most Important Index’

Line graph showing global surface air temperature changes from 1901 to 1987, illustrating a general rise in this world’s most important index over time.

Yesterday, my colleague Sarah Dry and I submitted the full manuscript of our forthcoming book ‘When Temperature Became Global’ to Princeton University Press. Following peer review, and any subsequent revisions, the book will enter production later this year and should hit the bookstores in the first quarter of 2027. Here is a brief synopsis of […]

Is the quest for net-zero a form of scientism?

Mike Hulme |

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, […]

The new Atlantis - Warm Planet, Cool Heads.

‘Warm Planet, Cool Heads …’

Mike Hulme |
A review of ‘Climate Change Isn’t Everything’, by Nicholas Clairmont for the Fall 2023 issue of The New Atlantis magazine … “A new book warns against pushing all the world’s problems into the climate bucket”. Clairmont concludes his review...
A group of people are sitting in a large room, engaging in conflict resolution.

Learning to Disagree Well

Mike Hulme |
In her first Annual Address to Senate House since her inauguration in July as Cambridge Vice-Chancellor, Deborah Prentice highlighted the imperative for university students to learn to “disagree well” on difficult subjects.  To facilitate this learning, Prentice intends to...