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Essays

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Reading Climate Change Backwards: Five Varieties

Mike Hulme | 30/09/2021
Climate change is everywhere.  In everyday speech, protest, advocacy, science, the arts, business and diplomacy.  And there are of course some physical correlates to this discursive reality of climate change, namely changes occurring in the physical dynamics of the...
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The cover of Christian Geography Professors' Review.

Advice to Christian Geography Professors

Mike Hulme | 31/08/2021
Earlier this year, I was invited by the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Christian Scholar’s Review, Professor Perry Glanzer, to contribute to a series of essays entitled, “Advice to Christian [fill in the academic discipline].”  Glanzer’s inspiration for the series...
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Universities Should Help Break the Wall Between Facts and Values

Mike Hulme | 24/08/2021
Managing climate change and pandemics alike requires ‘values-first’ approaches to public policy development, not ‘science-first’ rhetoric. Read this new essay in the Times Higher Education. If you cannot access the pay-wall, the article is reproduced in full below. In...
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Scottish parliament building with flags flying in the snow, showcasing Scotland.

Scotland, Awake! An Autocracy Awaits You

Mike Hulme | 20/08/2021
As I have repeatedly warned on this blog – ‘Mobilising for War’, ‘Sleepwalking into Totalitarianism’ – that it is much easier to declare an emergency than it is to end one, much easier for a state to appropriate powers...
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IPCC Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis.

The IPCC’s Mistaken “Science-First” Approach to Climate Change

Mike Hulme | 09/08/2021 | 1 Comment
The first of four separate reports comprising the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) was released today.  This is the report of Working Group 1 (WG1), ‘The Physical Science Basis of Climate Change’.  It makes for dramatic headlines and grabs...
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Boris Johnson bends down at a desk in parliament, embodying the principle there is more to life.

‘There is More to Life than the Absence of Disease’

Mike Hulme | 15/06/2021
For those familiar with this blog over the last 15 months, you will be aware of my views about the futility of the UK Government’s de facto Zero-Covid policy, and the undermining of liberal democracy and the huge public...
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University of East Anglia Climategate scandal to be turned into movie, The Trick.

“The Trick”: ‘Climategate’, the movie

Mike Hulme | 10/06/2021
The BBC have announced they have commissioned a movie about the 2009 Climategate controversy. Filming for “The Trick” will be starting shortly and some of the cast have been announced. The scriptwriter is Owen Sheers, author, poet and playwright...
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The New Climate War: Environmental Activism by Michael Brown.

The Manichean Mann. Review of ‘The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet’

Mike Hulme | 03/06/2021
Mann, M.E. (2021) The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet. New York: Public Affairs. Michael Mann has been in the climate wars for well over a decade now. As he reminds us frequently in this...
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Trust and Mistrust of Climate Science

Mike Hulme | 17/05/2021
You can watch this special Sustain What episode hosted on behalf of the Mellon-Sawyer Seminar on Trust and Mistrust of Science and Experts. (Andrew Revkin, normally the moderator of these sessions, is one of three guests this time, along...
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Sleep-walking into totalitarianism

Mike Hulme | 07/04/2021 | 1 Comment
Just over a year ago on this blog I warned of the dangerous consequences for democracy of declaring “emergencies”. “Taking decisive action against ‘the enemy’”, I said then, “whether [it be] Coronavirus or climate change, comes at a cost....
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  • Why not every global problem can be tackled by an IPCC-like organization

    October 19, 2026
  • Book cover for "The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable," a 2016 Climate Book of the Year, featuring aerial imagery of rivers or wetlands with dark land and light blue water.

    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

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

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