Essays
Climate Change: What Are We Allowed To Disagree About?
In October 2023, the new Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, the American psychology professor, Deborah Prentice, delivered her first Annual Address to Senate House. Her address highlighted the imperative for university students to learn to “disagree well” about difficult subjects and for universities to facilitate this learning. Prentice announced her intention to moderate a series […]
Launching the Tyndall Centre Amidst Floods, a Hung Vote and a COP Failure
‘Three Tough Truths About Climate’
‘The Unbearable Weight of Displaced Weather’
What Tony Blair Gets Right About Net-Zero
The Tyndall Centre at 25 Years: Bidding for the Contract
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, […]









