Published today in Environmental Research Letters Authored by Ingrid Boas, Harald Sterly, Carol Farbotko, Mike Hulme and 29 co-authors Abstract As climate change intensifies, scientific and policy discussions increasingly address questions of future habitability and potential population movements. In this perspective, we caution against premature or top-down characterizations of areas as uninhabitable, or portrayals of […]
My 2002 ‘Climate Book of the Year’
Klinenberg,E. (2002) Heatwave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 305pp. This essay continues my series of monthly posts in which I select one ‘climate’ book to highlight and review from one of the 44 years...
The IPCC and Religious Knowledge
By Mike Hulme[1] and Arthur C Petersen[2] The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is in the early stages of establishing its Seventh Assessment Report (AR7). These preparations include holding a workshop early in 2026 on ‘engaging diverse knowledge...
My 2001 ‘Climate Book of the Year’
O’Neill,B.C., MacKellar,F.L. and Lutz,W. (2001) Population and Climate Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 266pp. This essay continues my series of monthly posts in which I select one ‘climate’ book to highlight and review from one of the 44 years...
Review of David Livingstone’s ‘The Empire of Climate: A History of an Idea’ (Princeton, 2024)
The Journal of Historical Geography have newly published (June 2025) a ‘review forum’ based on David Livingstone’s recent book, ‘The Empire of Climate’. As well as myself, five other historical geographers — Awadhendra Sharan, Li Zhang, Louis S. Warren,...
My 2000 ‘Climate Book of the Year’
Newell,P. (2000) Climate for Change: Non-State Actors and the Global Politics of the Greenhouse. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 222pp. This essay continues my series of monthly posts in which I select one ‘climate’ book to highlight and review from...
‘The Unbearable Weight of Displaced Weather’
Read my new essay in The Rachel Carson Centre’s quarterly magazine, SPRINGS, Issue #7, May 27th 2025 Summary: Decades of scientific research have made clear that human presence on the planet is changing the world’s climates. Making them warmer...
ARIA’s £57million crazy techo-solution to stop climate change
The UK Government’s new DARPA style research agency–Advanced Research and Innovation Agency, ARIA–today announced 21 research projects, costing the British tax-payer £57 million, aimed at developing technologies to ‘cool the climate’, so-called solar geoengineering. I have been studying and...
What Tony Blair Gets Right About Net-Zero
The latest report from the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, ‘The Climate Paradox: Why We Need To Reset Action on Climate Change’ has caused an almighty row within the Labour Party and amongst the UK’s climate commentariat and...
My 1999 ‘Climate Book of the Year’
Leggett,J. (1999) The Carbon War: Dispatches from the End of the Oil Century. London: Penguin Books. 337pp. This essay continues my series of monthly posts in which I select one ‘climate’ book to highlight and review from one of...
