“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 […]
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Opinion column in The Times newspaper, published 25 July 2023, reproduced below. Based on my new book ‘Climate Change Isn’t Everything: Liberating Climate Politics From Alarmism‘ (Polity, 2023). “Towering above New York’s Union Square, a giant clock 80ft wide...
“Climate Change Isn’t Everything, But It Is Quite A Lot!”: Simon Maxwell’s review of ‘Climate Change Isn’t Everything’
Read Simon Maxwell’s review of ‘Climate Change Isn’t Everything‘. Simon is the former Director of the Overseas Development Institute, the UK’s leading independent think-tank on international development and humanitarian issues, and has worked internationally as a development economist since...
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...
‘Stop blaming everything on climate change’
An abridged extract from my new book ‘Climate Change Isn’t Everything’ was published in today’s issue of The Mail on Sunday. Not my usual venue for publication of course, but the 2,000 word essay captures the broad thrust of...
Extract from ‘Climate Change Isn’t Everything’
My latest book is published this week by Polity Press. I have pasted below a short extract from the Introduction to the book, explaining the background to the book, and its central argument … “Just over ten years ago...
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...
Nature’s editorial about the IPCC and Mike Hulme’s new book
This week’s issue of Nature (2 March 2023), includes an editorial which discusses the book I edited with my colleague Kari de Pryck and which was published open-access in December: ‘A Critical Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...
‘Climate Change Isn’t Everything: Liberating Climate Politics From Alarmism’
My new book about the ideology of climatism will be published by Polity Press in late spring 2023. The manuscript has now been signed off and the book in production. A brief synopsis is provided below … “The changing...
Published today as open-access …
A Critical Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is published today, 8th December, by Cambridge University Press as open-access. The book is edited by myself and Kari De Pryck and is available fully open-access. Click here for...
