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Published today: Contemporary Climate Change Debates

Mike Hulme | 11/12/2019

Contemporary Climate Change Debates: A Student Primer is published today—Thursday 12 December–and your pre-ordered copies will be on their way to you. Routledge are presently offering a special publication price when ordered through them of £27.99 for paperback and...

Making Climate History

Mike Hulme | 11/12/2019

This new project is funded by a Leverhulme Trust research project grant and was awarded jointly to me (co-PI) with Dr Richard Staley (PI) and Professor Simon Schaffer (co-PI) from the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science...

‘Window of Opportunity’

Mike Hulme | 05/12/2019

This essay will appear in Connectedness – an Incomplete Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene, edited by Sidsel Kjaerulff Rasmussen and Marianne Krogh and published later in 2020 by Strandberg Publishing, Denmark. ….. “We have a window of only 10-15 years...

A group of people standing next to a large pile of bags amid stories of climate migration.

New publication: ‘Climate migration myths’

Mike Hulme | 25/11/2019

I am a co-author on this new commentary in Nature Climate Change published today, led by my colleagues Ingrid Boas from Wageningen University and Carol Farbotko at Griffith University, Australia. Abstract. Misleading claims about mass migration induced by climate...

A planet earth with yellow text, dated 19 November 2009.

Climategate – 2pm on 19 November 2009

Mike Hulme | 19/11/2019

Ten years ago today, at 2pm in the afternoon on Thursday 19 November 2009, I received a circular email from the deputy-head of my School at the University of East Anglia. It read: “There seems to have been a...

A group of people holding a sign that says climate emergency, highlighting the dangerous implications.

Climate Emergency Politics is Dangerous

Mike Hulme | 04/10/2019 | 1 Comment

Read my latest essay in Issues in Science & Technology, Volume 36, Fall 2019 Issue. Summary: Declarations of emergencies create ‘states of exception,’ often justified by governments under conditions of war, insurrection, or terrorist threat. Emergencies promise the mass...

Pre-order Climate Change Debates

Mike Hulme | 26/09/2019

My new book Contemporary Climate Change Debates: A Student Primer is now advertised and available for pre-order. Read what the reviewers think of it. An e-book version will also be forthcoming after publication. You can read my Preface which...

A drawing of a river and mountains highlighting climate solutionism.

Beyond climate solutionism

Mike Hulme | 26/09/2019

You can watch my speech at the 2019 Nobel Conference, ‘Climate Changed: Facing our Future’, hosted by Gustavus Adolphus College, Minnesota. My talk, titled ‘Beyond Climate Solutionism: Against the Metrification of Climate Change’, was followed by a panel discussion...

A painting of women in different colors, symbolizing the diverse impacts of climate change on the world's climate.

Who Controls the World’s Climate? God, Nature or People?

Mike Hulme | 19/09/2019

I shall be delivering the newly inaugurated Derek Burke Memorial Science and Faith Lecture on Monday 14th October at 7pm in Norwich Cathedral. Entry is free and no need to register. Over the centuries, the vagaries of weather and...

A digital clock with a red light and a dangerous setting.

Why setting a climate deadline is dangerous

Mike Hulme | 22/07/2019 | 2 Comments

The publication of the IPCC Special Report on global warming of 1.5 oC paved the way for the rise of the political rhetoric of setting a fixed deadline for decisive actions on climate change. However, the dangers of such...

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Published today: Contemporary Climate Change Debates

Making Climate History

‘Window of Opportunity’

New publication: ‘Climate migration myths’

Climategate – 2pm on 19 November 2009

Climate Emergency Politics is Dangerous

Pre-order Climate Change Debates

Beyond climate solutionism

Who Controls the World’s Climate? God, Nature or People?

Why setting a climate deadline is dangerous