‘Window of Opportunity’

Mike Hulme | 05/12/2019

This essay will appear in Connectedness – an Incomplete Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene, edited by Sidsel Kjaerulff Rasmussen and Marianne Krogh and published later in 2020 by Strandberg Publishing, Denmark. ….. “We have a window of only 10-15 years...

New publication: ‘Climate migration myths’

Mike Hulme | 25/11/2019

I am a co-author on this new commentary in Nature Climate Change published today, led by my colleagues Ingrid Boas from Wageningen University and Carol Farbotko at Griffith University, Australia. Abstract. Misleading claims about mass migration induced by climate...

Climategate – 2pm on 19 November 2009

Mike Hulme | 19/11/2019

Ten years ago today, at 2pm in the afternoon on Thursday 19 November 2009, I received a circular email from the deputy-head of my School at the University of East Anglia. It read: “There seems to have been a...

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...

Climate Emergency Politics is Dangerous

Mike Hulme | 04/10/2019

Read my latest essay in Issues in Science & Technology, Volume 36, Fall 2019 Issue. Summary: Declarations of emergencies create ‘states of exception,’ often justified by governments under conditions of war, insurrection, or terrorist threat. Emergencies promise the mass...

Pre-order Climate Change Debates

Mike Hulme | 26/09/2019

My new book Contemporary Climate Change Debates: A Student Primer is now advertised and available for pre-order. Read what the reviewers think of it. An e-book version will also be forthcoming after publication. You can read my Preface which...

Beyond climate solutionism

Mike Hulme | 26/09/2019

You can watch my speech at the 2019 Nobel Conference, ‘Climate Changed: Facing our Future’, hosted by Gustavus Adolphus College, Minnesota. My talk, titled ‘Beyond Climate Solutionism: Against the Metrification of Climate Change’, was followed by a panel discussion...

Who Controls the World’s Climate? God, Nature or People?

Mike Hulme | 19/09/2019

I shall be delivering the newly inaugurated Derek Burke Memorial Science and Faith Lecture on Monday 14th October at 7pm in Norwich Cathedral. Entry is free and no need to register. Over the centuries, the vagaries of weather and...

new MPhil in Anthropocene Studies

Mike Hulme | 19/09/2019

A new 11-month Master’s course studying, exploring and critiquing the idea of The Anthropocene I shall be Course Director for this new MPhil in Anthropocene Studies from the Department of Geography which commences in October 2020. Applications are now...

Climate ‘Medicines’ do not Alleviate the Symptoms of Climate Change

Mike Hulme | 29/08/2019

Sustaining popular support for long-run climate policies is confronted with a serious problem. In nearly all other areas of public policy there are manifest experiential benefits for citizens that result from policy implementation. But climate change is different. Citizens...

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