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Essays & Blog Posts

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Political populism and sustainability

Mike Hulme | 17/03/2017
The first response of a scientist or scholar to surprising physical or cultural events is to want to understand them.  And in this spirit, my reaction to the political events of 2016, and potentially to those yet to come,...
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“Deadline-ism”: when is it too late?

Mike Hulme | 05/12/2016
Last Thursday was the first day of December 2016.  There was nothing particularly remarkable about the date.  Except that it was exactly 100 months since Andrew Simms and the New Economics Foundation announced that the world had only 100...
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A book review of the cultural history of climate change.

Book review of ‘A cultural history of climate change’ (Bristow & Ford, 2015)

Mike Hulme | 18/11/2016
A cultural history of climate change, edited by Tom Bristow and Thomas H Ford, Abingdon and New York, Earthscan/Routledge, 2016, xix + 244 pp., ISBN 978-1-138-83816-1 (hbk); ISBN 978-1-315-73459-1 (pbk). (Review appeared in Green Letters: Studies in Eco-criticism, vol.21(1),...
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The future of climate (abridged from ‘Weathered’)

Mike Hulme | 16/11/2016
My latest book Weathered: Cultures of Climate is published tomorrow (17 November) by Sage.  Here, I offer a heavily abridged version of the final chapter of the book, ‘The future of climate’.   Cultural theorist Arjun Appadurai has argued...
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Anglophone Political Populism and the Future of Climate-Change

Mike Hulme | 09/11/2016
Today’s result in the US Presidential election follows hard on the back of the UK’s Brexit vote in June.  Both results – an expression of collective public preference from the electorate – have shaken political and cultural establishments on...
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The role of language in the climate change debate

Mike Hulme | 20/10/2016
I have written this Foreword to the forthcoming book edited by Kjersti Fløttum, ‘The role of language in the climate change debate‘, due out with Routledge in 2017. Foreword In March 2015 the BBC screened a 90 minute TV...
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Governing the environment in the early Modern world

Mike Hulme | 15/10/2016
I have written this Foreword to the forthcoming book edited by Sara Miglietti and John Morgan, ‘Governing the environment in the early Modern world: theory and practice‘, due out with Routledge in 2017. Foreword The idea of anthropogenic climate-change,...
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Living with climate change, with or without the Paris Agreement

Mike Hulme | 14/12/2015

Given what has gone before, the Paris Agreement on climate change is certainly an impressive achievement of international negotiation. But what countries will be signing-up to, should they ratify it, is hardly going to reduce the challenges of dealing with a changing climate. And it has very little to contribute to addressing the chronic deficiencies […]

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Is climate change to blame for Syrian civil war?

Mike Hulme | 30/11/2015

(30 November)  Blog Post: ‘Is climate change really to blame for Syria’s civil war?’  Jan Selby and I answer this question with a ‘no’.

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What does the Pope have to say about climate change?

Mike Hulme | 30/06/2015

(30 June)  ‘What does the Pope have to say about climate change?‘  Read my blog on the King’s Geography web-site about the recent Papal Encyclical.

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    Launching the Tyndall Centre Amidst Floods, a Hung Vote and a COP Failure

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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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