Social scientific knowledge in times of crisis: What climate change can learn from coronavirus (and vice versa)

Mike Hulme | 29/05/2020

Read this new editorial commentary from WIREs Climate Change, written with colleagues from Orebro University, Sweden. Abstract. Crisis, by its very nature, requires decisive intervention. However, important questions can be obscured by the very immediacy of the crisis condition....

Is it too late (to stop dangerous climate change)? – an editorial

Mike Hulme | 17/10/2019

Today, WIREs Climate Change publishes on-line a special collection of nine opinion articles from hand-picked scholars around the world who each, in their own way, answer the question ‘Is it too late (to stop dangerous climate change)?’ You can...

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...

WIREs Climate Change – rising impact factor

Mike Hulme | 17/08/2018

The new journal impact factors for 2017 announced in June show the growing citation success of the journal which I edit, WIREs Climate Change. Our Thomson-Reuters JIF for 2016 was 5.12, the highest we have been since the journal launched in 2010. This places WIREs Climate Change 5th in the ‘meteorology and atmospheric science’ […]