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‘The Trick’: What Did Climategate Mean?

Mike Hulme | 18/10/2021

Tonight, the BBC broadcast ‘The Trick’, their commissioned TV drama of the 2009 Climategate affair. The drama focused on the relationship between Professor Phil Jones and his wife Ruth, and the handling of the controversy by Phil’s employer –...

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‘The Retreat of Scientific Debate’

Mike Hulme | 18/10/2021

Just over a year ago, I was one of about 50 original co-signatories to the Great Barrington Declaration, a short statement which challenged the prevailing policy orthodoxy that societal lockdowns were the only way to combat the risks to...

Prospective PhD Students

Mike Hulme | 04/10/2021

Owing to my planned retirement in 2027, I am no longer accepting approaches from new PhD students. Current PhD students: Friederike Hartz (awarded October 2025: funded by AHRC and Pembroke College): Taking responsibility for climate knowledge in a warming world. Exploring responsibility assembled in and around the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Madeleine Ary Hahne […]

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Negotiating Climate Change in Crisis

Mike Hulme | 02/10/2021

I have two chapters in the recently published book with OpenBook Publishers in Cambridge, ‘Negotiating Climate Change in Crisis: Social Science Perspectives‘. This is a collection of 28 essays written by social scientists, and edited by Steffen Böhm, Exeter...

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Reading Climate Change Backwards: Five Varieties

Mike Hulme | 30/09/2021

Climate change is everywhere. In everyday speech, protest, advocacy, science, the arts, business and diplomacy. And there are of course some physical correlates to this discursive reality of climate change, namely changes occurring in the physical dynamics of the...

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Advice to Christian Geography Professors

Mike Hulme | 31/08/2021

Earlier this year, I was invited by the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Christian Scholar’s Review, Professor Perry Glanzer, to contribute to a series of essays entitled, “Advice to Christian [fill in the academic discipline].” Glanzer’s inspiration for the series...

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COVID-19, Climate Change and Emergency Politics

Mike Hulme | 30/08/2021

What can the COVID-19 pandemic teach us about handling the climate crisis? Listen to this new podcast with Ingrid Rieser and her ‘Forest of Thought’ podcast. We’ve seen that governments have not hesitated to take bold action when faced...

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Universities Should Help Break the Wall Between Facts and Values

Mike Hulme | 24/08/2021

Managing climate change and pandemics alike requires ‘values-first’ approaches to public policy development, not ‘science-first’ rhetoric. Read this new essay in the Times Higher Education. If you cannot access the pay-wall, the article is reproduced in full below. In...

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Scotland, Awake! An Autocracy Awaits You

Mike Hulme | 20/08/2021

As I have repeatedly warned on this blog – ‘Mobilising for War’, ‘Sleepwalking into Totalitarianism’ – that it is much easier to declare an emergency than it is to end one, much easier for a state to appropriate powers...

IPCC Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis.

The IPCC’s Mistaken “Science-First” Approach to Climate Change

Mike Hulme | 09/08/2021 | 1 Comment

The first of four separate reports comprising the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) was released today. This is the report of Working Group 1 (WG1), ‘The Physical Science Basis of Climate Change’. It makes for dramatic headlines and grabs...

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