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Essays

A young girl sitting on a bed looking out the window, contemplating the closed schools during the pandemic.

Why Closing Schools During The Pandemic Was Child Abuse

Mike Hulme | 31/05/2022
The Spectator this week ran the story I reproduce below, in which journalist Ross Clark asked the question ‘How much did the pandemic harm children?’ Actually the question being answered by Clark really is, ‘How much did Governments’ closures...
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‘Classics in human geography’: The science and politics of climate change

Mike Hulme | 03/03/2022

In 2001, David Demeritt published an article in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers titled, ‘The construction of global warming and the politics of science‘. It has been cited nearly 1000 times (Google Scholar). Now, more than two decades later, I and Rebecca Lave offer short retrospectives on the significance of Demeritt’s article […]

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A graph showing the number of hospital admissions in England during governing pandemics.

Why Governing Pandemics Using Models is Dangerous

Mike Hulme | 22/01/2022
Do you remember the headline in The Guardian newspaper from 18 December 2021: “UK scientists: Bring in new curbs now or face up to 2 million daily infections”?  And whatever happened to the scenario of “6,000 COVID deaths per...
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International Non-Use Agreement on Solar Geoengineering

Mike Hulme | 17/01/2022
I have joined more than 60 senior climate scientists and governance scholars from around the world who have launched a global initiative today calling for an International Non-Use Agreement on Solar Geoengineering. We argue that solar geoengineering deployment cannot...
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‘Climate Change is Not the End of the World’

Mike Hulme | 12/01/2022 | 1 Comment
Professor Mike Hulme insists that the Church should not fuel young people’s eco-anxieties (This column appeared in The Church of England newspaper, 12 November 2021 issue) There has been a troubling rise in recent years amongst young adults and...
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Better late than never, the phrase "Speaks Out" is written on a blackboard in stock photos, reflecting the sentiment of the political left.

At Last: The Political Left Speaks Out

Mike Hulme | 22/12/2021
As the old adage says, ‘Better late than never’.  I think of this in relation to a number of commentaries and essays that have appeared in recent days from the political Left, that at last begin to see the...
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A group of camels are walking down a dirt road, serving as an analogy for the journey we must undertake in communicating climate change.

Choose Carefully Your Analogies for Communicating the Challenges of Climate Change

Mike Hulme | 15/11/2021
Among the media coverage of last week’s COP26 meeting in Glasgow one particular analogy stood out to me.  It claimed that the Glasgow Climate Pact was a failure by analogy of having a 2 metre chasm to jump across...
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Future School Closures and Us for Them logo.

Preventing Future School Closures

Mike Hulme | 07/11/2021
Earlier this year I wrote a blog post here titled, ‘Re-socialising a vaccinated world requires political struggle‘. I am pleased to draw attention to one small success in such a struggle, which in this case is to make it...
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‘The Trick’: What Did Climategate Mean?

Mike Hulme | 18/10/2021
Tonight, the BBC broadcast ‘The Trick’, their commissioned TV drama of the 2009 Climategate affair. The drama focused on the relationship between Professor Phil Jones and his wife Ruth, and the handling of the controversy by Phil’s employer –...
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‘The Retreat of Scientific Debate’

Mike Hulme | 18/10/2021
Just over a year ago, I was one of about 50 original co-signatories to the Great Barrington Declaration, a short statement which challenged the prevailing policy orthodoxy that societal lockdowns were the only way to combat the risks to...
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  • Why not every global problem can be tackled by an IPCC-like organization

    October 19, 2026
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    My 2016 ‘Climate Book of the Year’

    October 1, 2026
  • Cover of the 2015 climate book "On Care for Our Common Home," an encyclical letter by Pope Francis, featuring a blue and white design and the Vatican coat of arms.

    My 2015 ‘Climate Book of the Year’

    September 1, 2026
  • North Sea drilling and managing UK’s climate are different issues: don’t mistake one for the other

    August 24, 2026

Books

  • (2019) Contemporary Climate Change Debates: A Student Primer
  • (2016) Weathered: Cultures of Climate
  • (2015) Streitfall Klimawandel: warum es für die grö?te Herausforderung keine enfachen Lösungen gibt
  • (2014) Can Science Fix Climate Change? A Case Against Climate Engineering
  • (2013) Exploring Climate Change Through Science and In Society
  • (2010) Making Climate Change Work For Us
  • (2009) Why We Disagree About Climate Change

My other web presence

  • Academia.Edu
  • Google Scholar Citations
  • Research Gate

Relevant links

  • MPhil Anthropocene Studies
  • Rachel Carson Center
  • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews (WIREs): Climate Change

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