Climates Multiple: Three Baselines, Two Tolerances, One Normal

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31/12/2020

Today, Friday 1 January, 2021, the world’s climate is re-set. Overnight, the world will “become” about 0.5°C warmer, the UK nearly 0.7°C warmer. This essay, published at Academia Letters, explains what is happening, and discusses its wider significance. Mike Hulme, updated 31 December, 2020 (link refreshed 12 January 2021).

Mike Hulme on ScienceWhys: A podcast from the Nobel Conference at Gustavus Adolphus College

Mike Hulme | 28/12/2020

When big scientific questions meet big ethical questions, the waters can get pretty choppy. In ScienceWhys, Lisa Heldke, philosopher and director of the Nobel Conference at Gustavus Adolphus College, interviews scientists, researchers, scholars and thinkers about how science and...

Latest articles in WIREs Climate Change, Vol 12(1), 2021

Mike Hulme | 17/12/2020

The latest issue of WIREs Climate Change, Volume 12(1) 2021, is now available on-line. The 10 review articles in this issue include Dana Fisher and Sohana Nasrin on climate activism and its effects, Mike Schafer and James Painter...

The Unbearable Placelessness of Zoom

Mike Hulme | 12/12/2020

During 2020, Zoom (and its equivalents) has become for many people the dominant medium through which human encounter and interaction is experienced. This is especially true of the academy. Despite its democratising potential, I have struggled to adapt to...

Navigating the Values of Climate Change

Mike Hulme | 03/12/2020

In the first episode of this new podcast series from the University of Cambridge – Mind Over Chatter – I explore the historical, ethical and political dimensions of climate change, along with Sarah Dry and Matthew Agarwala. Climate change...

Academic Peer Reviewing: Saying ‘Yes’ or Saying ‘No’

Mike Hulme | 27/11/2020

Have you just received an invitation to review a submitted journal manuscript, or a grant application? Not sure whether or not to accept the invitation? You’ve got way too much work on your desk already. What should you decide?...

Climate Data – “free exchange” or commercially priced?

Mike Hulme | 17/11/2020

This week — 16-19 November 2020 — the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) is hosting an international conference on the exchange of data about the Earth System in the 21st century. The purpose of the discussions facilitated by this conference...

First, Do No Harm

Mike Hulme | 02/11/2020

An Open Letter from health professionals and scientists to the Prime Minister, coordinated by the UK parents’ advocacy group ‘Us for Them: The Parent Voice’. “We the undersigned British health professionals and scientists, wish to express our serious concern...

Long-COVID vs Collateral-COVID

Mike Hulme | 19/10/2020

The science journal Nature ran an editorial on 8 October under the title, “Let patients help define long-lasting COVID symptoms”. In my short response to this editorial, I argue that public policy which considers only COVID mortality and COVID-morbidity...

Why is the academic left silent about the new authoritarianism?

Mike Hulme | 08/10/2020

This is a question recently asked by my colleague Dragos Simandan of Brock University, Ontario. In particular he asks, “In my home discipline of human geography I’ve been surprised by the lack of deep criticism (so far!) against the...