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, […]
Books
‘Profiles in Sustainability’, an interview with Mike Hulme
The journal Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development centers on sustainability science and its contribution to guiding policy and practice. To this end, the journal is exploring the device of interviews to enable conversations to flourish. In this...
Climatism and Its Discontents: Why Net-Zero Obsession is Unfair to the World’s Poor
The ideology of climatism has dangerous implications for societies, especially for countries such as India whose development trajectory and ambition requires them to pursue a plurality of goals. You can read here my op-ed for India’s OutlookBusiness, an abridged...
‘Climate Change Isn’t Everything’ … in Korean
Today, 24 June, the Korean edition of ‘Climate Change Isn’t Everything‘ is published. I can’t say I read Korean, but if you do you might like to check out this web-site and blog — and let me know whether...
‘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...
‘Warm Planet, Cool Heads …’
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...
My three favourite reads of 2023
As part of Shepherd’s book-lover’s web-site, you can find short reviews of these three books which I loved reading over the past year. Very little to do with climate change, but really good reads.
Learning to Disagree Well
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...
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...
Review of ‘Climate Change Isn’t Everything’ by Dr Volker Hahn
“If Hulme’s readers concede that the issue of climate change involves more ambiguity than perceivable in the public discourse, then this book will have served a purpose”. This review is written by Dr. Volker Hahn, a science journalist and a science communication expert in Leipzig, Germany. He has a Ph.D. in biogeochemistry from the Friedrich Schiller […]
