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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Balancing a budget or running a deficit? The offset regime of carbon removal and solar geoengineering under a carbon budget

Mike Hulme | 29/07/2021

In this new article, published today in the journal Climatic Change, my colleagues Shin Asayama and Nils Markusson and I examine a paradox of adopting a carbon budget as a policy tool. The very idea of a finite carbon...

‘Climate Change’: A Synopsis

Mike Hulme | 01/07/2021

My new book on climate change, in the Key Ideas in Geography series from Routledge, is published on 27 July 2021. You can pre-order paperback or Kindle editions now with a 20% discount. Here is a synopsis of the...

A man, identified as Mike Hulme, standing in front of a sign that says climate research unit for an interview.

An Interview with Mike Hulme

Mike Hulme | 30/06/2021

Emeritus Professor Hans von Storch has been carrying out interviews with climate and atmospheric scientists for more than 25 years. I was von Storch’s 13th interview in this series, the interview conducted jointly with Professor Martin Claussen of the...

Boris Johnson bends down at a desk in parliament, embodying the principle there is more to life.

‘There is More to Life than the Absence of Disease’

Mike Hulme | 15/06/2021

For those familiar with this blog over the last 15 months, you will be aware of my views about the futility of the UK Government’s de facto Zero-Covid policy, and the undermining of liberal democracy and the huge public...

University of East Anglia Climategate scandal to be turned into movie, The Trick.

“The Trick”: ‘Climategate’, the movie

Mike Hulme | 10/06/2021

The BBC have announced they have commissioned a movie about the 2009 Climategate controversy. Filming for “The Trick” will be starting shortly and some of the cast have been announced. The scriptwriter is Owen Sheers, author, poet and playwright...

A group of people sitting on a blanket in a field, ausrufen den Klimanotstand.

„Wir sollten keinen Klimanotstand ausrufen“

Mike Hulme | 07/06/2021

Read here my interview with Welt journalist Axel Bojanowski, published online, 6 June 2021 (in German) … “As a renowned geographer, Mike Hulme warns of an alarmist climate policy. A conversation about good counterarguments, ambitious experts – and skeptics...

The New Climate War: Environmental Activism by Michael Brown.

The Manichean Mann. Review of ‘The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet’

Mike Hulme | 03/06/2021

Mann, M.E. (2021) The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet. New York: Public Affairs. Michael Mann has been in the climate wars for well over a decade now. As he reminds us frequently in this...

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Trust and Mistrust of Climate Science

Mike Hulme | 17/05/2021

You can watch this special Sustain What episode hosted on behalf of the Mellon-Sawyer Seminar on Trust and Mistrust of Science and Experts. (Andrew Revkin, normally the moderator of these sessions, is one of three guests this time, along...

The Environment: Can the Future Ever Be Green?

Mike Hulme | 12/05/2021

The recording of this on-line event is now available to view here. Hosted by Christian Evidence, 16 March 2021, 8-9pm In the fourth of a series of webinars conversations, Questions of our Times, Professor Mike Hulme, Professor of Human...

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