Weather-Worlds in the Anthropocene and the End of Climate

Mike Hulme | 03/11/2017

This new essay has been written as a contribution to a collaborative double issue of the journal Weber with the Rachel Carson Center, on the theme ‘Transformations of the Anthropocene’. It is scheduled to appear in autumn 2018 (Issue...

Calculating the Incalculable: Is SAI the Lesser of Two Evils?

Mike Hulme | 12/10/2017

In a forthcoming article in Ethics and International Affairs, Christopher J. Preston uses the doctrine of double effect to claim that hypothetical climate engineers might very well be less culpable for climate harms than those who continue to emit...

Prospective PhD Students

Mike Hulme | 12/10/2017

I am interested to receive approaches from students who would like to study for a PhD with me in the areas of the cultural history of climate change, STS approaches to studying climate science and knowledge, representations and discourses of climate in the media, and the philosophy of climate and climate change. Please state clearly your […]

Previous PhD Students

Mike Hulme | 16/09/2017

I have acted as primary supervisor for 15 PhD students, all of whom have successfully completed their doctorates. I have also been external or internal examiner for a further 25 PhD theses, in the UK, Australia, Canada and the Netherlands. Chaya Vaddhanaphuti (2017): Experiencing and performing in the field: how do Northern Thai farmers make […]

Climate Change and the Syrian Civil War Revisited

Mike Hulme | 07/09/2017 | 1 Comment

This peer-reviewed journal article, coauthored with colleagues Jan Selby (University of Sussex), Omar Dahi (Hampshire College, USA) and Christiane Frohlich (University of Hamburg), is now published in the journal Political Geography. The abstract reads: “For proponents of the view...

Beyond Counting Climate Consensus

Mike Hulme | 25/07/2017

This peer-reviewed essay, written with colleagues from the University of Nottingham, has just been published in the journal Environmental Communication, together with an associated press release. The abstract reads: “Several studies have been using quantified consensus within climate science...

Climate Change and the Significance of Religion

Mike Hulme | 15/07/2017

Published in today’s issue of Economic & Political Weekly in India, this Essay argues that there is a growing sense that religion has a part to play in shaping our responses to climate change. Merely understanding climate science, or...

On the ethics of fossil fuel divestment – a response to Willis Jenkins

Mike Hulme | 07/07/2017

A student of history and journalism from the University of Montana recently wrote to me about climate change and fossil fuel divestment (FFD). She had read and studied my arguments against FFD and claimed to appreciate the different sides...

WIREs Climate Change – rising impact factor

Mike Hulme | 17/06/2017

The new journal impact factors for 2016 announced last week show the growing citation success of the journal which I edit, WIREs Climate Change. Our Thomson-Reuters JIF for 2016 was 4.57, the highest we have been since the journal launched in 2010. The new Elsevier CiteScore, calculated in a slightly different way to the […]

One Man Does Not Control the Climate

Mike Hulme | 02/06/2017 | 1 Comment

It is important not to over-react to the news that Donald Trump wishes to withdraw the USA from the Paris Agreement and seek to renegotiate a ‘fairer deal’ for America. The wailing and grieving around the media that has accompanied yesterday’s announcement is exactly the sort of reaction that Trump is seeking to provoke. It […]

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