We need scientific dissidents committed to free thought now more than ever.

“We Need Scientific Dissidents Now More Than Ever”

Mike Hulme | 12/08/2023

This brilliant short essay, posted on The Chronicle of Higher Education website two days ago, is written by Eric Winsberg is a professor of philosophy at the University of South Florida and a visiting professor of history and philosophy...

Podcast: ‘The Geopolitics of Climate Change’

Mike Hulme | 08/08/2023

‘OnGeopolitics’ hosts, Ali Ansari and Suzanne Raine, are joined by Professor Mike Hulme, a climate change specialist, and author of Climate Change Isn’t Everything, who argues that the current approach to climate change targets and deadlines oversimplifies a complex...

Review of ‘Climate Change Isn’t Everything’ by Dr Volker Hahn

Mike Hulme | 07/08/2023

“If Hulme’s readers concede that the issue of climate change involves more ambiguity than perceivable in the public discourse, then this book will have served a purpose”. This review is written by Dr. Volker Hahn, a science journalist and a science communication expert in Leipzig, Germany. He has a Ph.D. in biogeochemistry from the Friedrich Schiller […]

Panic about a climate cliff edge helps no one.

Mike Hulme | 25/07/2023 | 1 Comment

Opinion column in The Times newspaper, published 25 July 2023, reproduced below. Based on my new book ‘Climate Change Isn’t Everything: Liberating Climate Politics From Alarmism‘ (Polity, 2023). “Towering above New York’s Union Square, a giant clock 80ft wide...

The homepage of Simon Maxwell's website featuring his climate change review.

“Climate Change Isn’t Everything, But It Is Quite A Lot!”: Simon Maxwell’s review of ‘Climate Change Isn’t Everything’

Mike Hulme | 10/07/2023

Read Simon Maxwell’s review of ‘Climate Change Isn’t Everything‘. Simon is the former Director of the Overseas Development Institute, the UK’s leading independent think-tank on international development and humanitarian issues, and has worked internationally as a development economist since...

The climate crisis: a conversation with Mike Hulme on the "Sustain What? Podcast.

Mike Hulme on Andy Revkin’s ‘Sustain What?’ Podcast

Mike Hulme | 07/07/2023

July 6, 2023 “DESCRIPTION: Mike Hulme, a University of Cambridge geographer and longtime researcher focused on the human relationship to climate, worries that the idea of climate change might be more dangerous than the geophysical phenomenon itself. His latest...

Stop blaming climate change for everything.

‘Stop blaming everything on climate change’

Mike Hulme | 25/06/2023

An abridged extract from my new book ‘Climate Change Isn’t Everything’ was published in today’s issue of The Mail on Sunday. Not my usual venue for publication of course, but the 2,000 word essay captures the broad thrust of...

Two women standing in front of a building that has been demolished in a Ukraine motion.

“I’ve quit UCU over its Putin-pleasing Ukraine motion”

Mike Hulme | 19/06/2023

I reproduce below an article which first appeared in the Times Higher Education on Tuesday 6 June 2023, written by Julia Bell, a reader in creative writing at Birkbeck, University of London. I resigned from the UCU, the Universities...

Climate change isn't everything, Mike Hume suggests, emphasizing the role of climate politics and alarmism in shaping our understanding and responses.

Extract from ‘Climate Change Isn’t Everything’

Mike Hulme | 06/06/2023 | 2 Comments

My latest book is published this week by Polity Press. I have pasted below a short extract from the Introduction to the book, explaining the background to the book, and its central argument … “Just over ten years ago...

How climate visions get constructed

Mike Hulme | 12/04/2023

In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews me about how climate visions get constructed. The conversation explores something about my career studying climate change and in particular discusses some of the methods, data, and...

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“We Need Scientific Dissidents Now More Than Ever”

Podcast: ‘The Geopolitics of Climate Change’

Review of ‘Climate Change Isn’t Everything’ by Dr Volker Hahn

“Climate Change Isn’t Everything, But It Is Quite A Lot!”: Simon Maxwell’s review of ‘Climate Change Isn’t Everything’

Mike Hulme on Andy Revkin’s ‘Sustain What?’ Podcast

‘Stop blaming everything on climate change’

“I’ve quit UCU over its Putin-pleasing Ukraine motion”

Extract from ‘Climate Change Isn’t Everything’

How climate visions get constructed