Against climate emergency

Mike Hulme | 17/10/2018

The recent Special Report from the IPCC on Global Warming of 1.5C (IPCC SR15) has (again) heightened the climate change rhetoric and generated another splurge of dramatic headlines: ‘We have 12 more years to limit climate change catastrophe’, ‘World...

The first climate scenario: a drama in three acts

Mike Hulme | 29/08/2018

The first scientific paper using the terminology of ‘scenario’ to describe the possible future evolution of climate was published in 1977 by the German meteorologist Hermann Flohn. It appeared as the first paper in the very first issue of...

London’s weather and the everyday: two centuries of newspaper reports

Mike Hulme | 23/08/2018

This new research article was published on 19 August 2018 in the Royal Meteorological Society’s journal Weather. (A pre-print of the article can be downloaded here). Written with one of my graduating geography students from King’s College London, Nick...

WIREs Climate Change – rising impact factor

Mike Hulme | 17/08/2018

The new journal impact factors for 2017 announced in June show the growing citation success of the journal which I edit, WIREs Climate Change. Our Thomson-Reuters JIF for 2016 was 5.12, the highest we have been since the journal launched in 2010. This places WIREs Climate Change 5th in the ‘meteorology and atmospheric science’ […]

Epistemic geographies of climate change: science, space and politics

Mike Hulme | 15/08/2018

This review article, co-authored with Martin Mahony at the University of East Anglia (ex-University of Nottingham), was published on-line in December 2016 in the journal Progress in Human Geography and in print in June 2018 (Vol. 42, Issue 3,...

Climate in the Anthropocene

Mike Hulme | 24/07/2018

The idea of climate only makes sense when there is a degree of stability in some set of conditions, whether these be atmospheric, economic, political or moral. When everything is changing and no stable condition is possible — the...

‘Gaps’ in knowledge: do they exist? Can they be filled?…

Mike Hulme | 22/06/2018

This essay on ‘gaps in knowledge’ is now published in the journal Environmental Humanities. I analyse calls for knowledge gap-filling around climate change by asking and answering three specific questions: What sorts of knowledge are we dealing with? How...

Framing the Challenge of Climate Change in Nature and Science Editorials

Mike Hulme | 29/05/2018

This research paper is now published in Nature Climate Change, co-authored with Noam Obermeister, Samuel Randalls and Maud Borie. Brigitte Nerlich has an associated Commentary on the paper’s significance. For those without access to Nature Climate Change, a view-only...

Geoengineering at ‘the edge of the world’

Mike Hulme | 15/05/2018

This new paper, co-authored with Kate Gannon from LSE and based on her PhD completed under my supervision, is now on-line in the journal GEO: Geography and Environment. Drawing upon ethnography amongst the Haida peoples of British Columbia, it...

Companion to Environmental Studies

Mike Hulme | 09/05/2018

This new student reference book has just been published by Routledge, ‘A companion to environmental studies‘, edited by Noel Castree, Jim Proctor and myself. The book presents a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of around 150 key issues, debates, concepts,...

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