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...

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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...

Betting on speculative geoengineering may risk an escalating ‘climate debt crisis’

Mike Hulme | 18/07/2019

The opening of the Oscar-winning film The Big Short, a comedy-drama on the global financial crisis of 2007-2008, begins with a famous quote: “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” Co-authored with my colleague Shin Asayama, read more at The Conversation […]

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...

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...

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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

From 24-25 September, I shall be speaking at the 2019 Nobel Conference at Adolphus Gustavus College at St.Peter, Minnesota. My talk ‘Beyond Climate Solutionism’ will be live-streamed here. The Conference theme this year is ‘Climate Change: Facing Our Future’...

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Am I a denier, a human extinction denier?

Mike Hulme | 27/05/2019 | 2 Comments

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....

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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...

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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...

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

Why setting a climate deadline is dangerous

Betting on speculative geoengineering may risk an escalating ‘climate debt crisis’

Climate, armed conflict and the problem of attribution slippage

Engineering climate debt

Debating Climate Change: A New Book

The Nobel Conference: Climate Changed

Am I a denier, a human extinction denier?

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