The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

Mike Hulme |

My updated entry on the IPCC has been published (September 2020) in the International Encyclopedia of Geography (from Wiley) Abstract: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was constituted by the United Nations in 1988 to conduct periodic assessments of scientific knowledge pertaining to climate change. To date it has published five full?scale assessment reports, […]

People are silhouetted in the shadow of a coronavirus, raising questions of moral accountability.

First, Do No Harm

Mike Hulme |
An Open Letter from health professionals and scientists to the Prime Minister, coordinated by the UK parents’ advocacy group ‘Us for Them: The Parent Voice’. “We the undersigned British health professionals and scientists, wish to express our serious concern...
An illustration of a person with Long-COVID.

Long-COVID vs Collateral-COVID

Mike Hulme |
The science journal Nature ran an editorial on 8 October under the title, “Let patients help define long-lasting COVID symptoms”. In my short response to this editorial, I argue that public policy which considers only COVID mortality and COVID-morbidity...