In production at Princeton: ‘When Temperature Became Global’

Our final manuscript for this new book, co-written with Sarah Dry and a spin-out product from the Leverhulme ‘Making Climate History’ project, is now in production with Princeton University Press. Our short marketing blurb for the book is here: “This book tells the history of global temperature, a hugely consequential number which shapes global politics […]

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

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, […]