Essays & Blog Posts

What I Would Have Done Differently

Five people participate in a panel discussion on "What I Would Have Done Differently"; one stands holding a microphone while the other four are seated with microphones and notes in front of a presentation screen.

I post here a summary of the comments I made, as part of a ‘directors’ panel’, at the Tyndall Centre @ 25 years conference, ‘Our Critical Decade for Climate Action’, 8-10 September 2025‘ The first thing to say is that the Tyndall Centre was founded and launched – in November 2000 – at a most […]

Illustration showing two hands pressed together in prayer on the left and a stylized globe on the right, with trees and animal silhouettes below—symbolizing the meeting of religious knowledge and IPCC-driven environmental awareness.

The IPCC and Religious Knowledge

Mike Hulme |
By Mike Hulme[1] and Arthur C Petersen[2] The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is in the early stages of establishing its Seventh Assessment Report (AR7).  These preparations include holding a workshop early in 2026 on ‘engaging diverse knowledge...

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 dangerous obsession with Net-Zero’

Mike Hulme |

Despite a heated debate at COP28 over whether the world should be phasing-out fossil fuels altogether, the governmental delegates in the end agreeing rather to “transition away from fossil fuels”, Net Zero remains the collectively agreed target. But as I argue in this post for the Institute of Arts and Ideas, Net Zero is both […]