Amidst green leaves, Mike Hulme stands outdoors with his signature glasses and grey hair, wearing a blue sweater over a purple shirt. He is poised for an interview, adding depth to the Profiles in Sustainability series.

‘Profiles in Sustainability’, an interview with Mike Hulme

Mike Hulme | 26/02/2025

The journal Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development centers on sustainability science and its contribution to guiding policy and practice. To this end, the journal is exploring the device of interviews to enable conversations to flourish. In this...

How to Frame Climate Change

Mike Hulme | 10/11/2021

This interview for the ‘Sustainability Agenda’ podcast with Fergal Byrne covers my expectations for COP26, the role and importance of the COPs in general, and the dangers of an overly scientific approach to climate change– a reductionist framing of...

A man, identified as Mike Hulme, standing in front of a sign that says climate research unit for an interview.

An Interview with Mike Hulme

Mike Hulme | 30/06/2021

Emeritus Professor Hans von Storch has been carrying out interviews with climate and atmospheric scientists for more than 25 years. I was von Storch’s 13th interview in this series, the interview conducted jointly with Professor Martin Claussen of the...

A group of people sitting on a blanket in a field, ausrufen den Klimanotstand.

„Wir sollten keinen Klimanotstand ausrufen“

Mike Hulme | 07/06/2021

Read here my interview with Welt journalist Axel Bojanowski, published online, 6 June 2021 (in German) … “As a renowned geographer, Mike Hulme warns of an alarmist climate policy. A conversation about good counterarguments, ambitious experts – and skeptics...

A group of old people sitting on lawn chairs in a park.

‘Why the old normal needs to be fought for’

Mike Hulme | 06/03/2021

My interview with Alastair Benn of Reaction news – about the emasculated politics of managing COVID-19 – is behind a paywall. You can read it in full below … =========================================== Mike Hulme is a Professor of Human Geography at...

‘Everybody Will be Affected by Climate Change’

Mike Hulme | 15/12/2020

“In 2009, Dr Mike Hulme, Professor of Human Geography at the University of Cambridge, found himself at the centre of a media storm known as Climategate. A leak of scientists’ emails, the majority of which belonging to four scientists,...

PhD to professor: a conversation with Mike Hulme

Mike Hulme | 15/02/2019

Read here my conversation with the Pembroke College blog about my career in geography, some of the decisions I took on the way from PhD to Professor, the importance of interdisciplinary networks, the challenges facing graduate students and academics today, and the value of a geographer’s approach to climate change.

A group of people sitting in a room, talking to each other, engaged in a disagreement.

‘Disagreement is always good’ – an interview with Mike Hulme

Mike Hulme | 26/02/2018

Following my talk to the K3 Congress on Climate Change Communication in Salzburg last October, I was interviewed by the Deutsches Klima Konsortium (K3) website: “After the conference, author and professor Mike Hulme sat down with us to talk about...

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‘Profiles in Sustainability’, an interview with Mike Hulme

How to Frame Climate Change

An Interview with Mike Hulme

„Wir sollten keinen Klimanotstand ausrufen“

‘Why the old normal needs to be fought for’

‘Everybody Will be Affected by Climate Change’

PhD to professor: a conversation with Mike Hulme

‘Disagreement is always good’ – an interview with Mike Hulme