Climate, armed conflict and the problem of attribution slippage

Mike Hulme | 22/06/2019

A new paper in the journal Nature explores the role of climate as a risk factor in armed conflict. It is interesting for a number of reasons, not least since it uses the method of expert elicitation to explore...

Latest articles in WIREs Climate Change, Vol 10(4), 2019

Mike Hulme | 18/06/2019

The latest issue of WIREs Climate Change, Volume 10(4) 2019, is now available on-line. The 9 review articles in this issue include Jakob Skovgaard and Harro van Asselt on the politics of fossil fuel subsidies, Sophie Chiari on...

Engineering climate debt

Mike Hulme | 17/06/2019

My colleague Shin Asayama and I have co-authored this new paper, titled “Engineering climate debt: temperature overshoot and peak-shaving as risky subprime mortgage lending”, which is now available open-access online in the journal Climate Policy. In this paper, we...

Debating Climate Change: A New Book

Mike Hulme | 13/06/2019

It is unusual to find myself agreeing with Nigel Farage. But a comment he made a few months ago about the importance of teaching critical thinking at British universities puts him on my side. “Ultimately it seems to me...

The Nobel Conference: Climate Changed

Mike Hulme | 11/06/2019

This September, I shall be speaking at the 2019 Nobel Conference at Adolphus Gustavus College at St.Peter, Minnesota. The Conference theme this year is ‘Climate Change: Facing Our Future’ and I shall be addressing the following questions: How do...

Am I a denier, a human extinction denier?

Mike Hulme | 27/05/2019

There has been a lot of talk recently about climate change and extinction. It is undoubtedly the case that species go extinct. And sometimes large numbers of species disappear together in mass events caused by the same physical stresses....

Prospective PhD Students

Mike Hulme | 24/05/2019

I am interested to receive approaches from students who would like to study for a PhD with me in the areas of the cultural history of climate change, STS approaches to studying climate science and knowledge, representations and discourses of climate in the media, and the philosophy of climate and climate change. Please state clearly your […]

Morality by numbers? Against the regulatory power of carbon metrics

Mike Hulme | 22/03/2019

Mike Hulme, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge Presented at ‘Multiple Carbons: Historical and Contemporary Approaches to Governance’ Friday-Saturday 5-6 April 2019, Harvard University’s Center for the Environment Introduction In 2007, a new web-site CheatNeutral offered an on-line service...

Telling one story, or many? An ecolinguistic analysis of climate change stories in UK national newspaper editorials

Mike Hulme | 07/02/2019

This article, co-written with one of my Master’s students from King’s College London–Cherry Norton, has been published today in the journal Geoforum. The abstract is reproduced below. Media reporting of climate change plays a key role in shaping public...

Major Publications 2018

Mike Hulme | 03/01/2019

Castree,N., Hulme,M. and Proctor,J.D. (eds.) (2018) Companion to environmental studies Routledge, Abingdon, 848pp. Gannon,K.E. and Hulme,M. (2018) Geoengineering ‘at the edge of the world’: exploring perceptions of ocean fertilization through the Haida Salmon Restoration Corporation GEO: Geography and Environment 5(1), e00054, 21pp. Hulme,M. (2018) “Gaps” in climate change knowledge: Do they exist? Can they be […]

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Climate, armed conflict and the problem of attribution slippage

Latest articles in WIREs Climate Change, Vol 10(4), 2019

Engineering climate debt

Debating Climate Change: A New Book

The Nobel Conference: Climate Changed

Am I a denier, a human extinction denier?

Prospective PhD Students

Morality by numbers? Against the regulatory power of carbon metrics

Telling one story, or many? An ecolinguistic analysis of climate change stories in UK national newspaper editorials

Major Publications 2018