One Earth, many futures, no destination

Mike Hulme | 17/04/2020

Read my new Commentary in the journal One Earth, to mark the 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day. Since the first Earth Day 50 years ago, it has become clear that it is easier to generate scientific insight...

‘Mobilising for War’: Why COVID-19 is Not a Dress Rehearsal for Dealing with Climate Change

Mike Hulme | 19/03/2020

Many politicians and public figures are calling for the response to COVID-19 to be put on a war footing. Emergency declarations and executive powers are being appropriated by the state. Climate campaigners, too, have frequently called upon nations to...

Podcast: ‘The Sustainability Agenda’

Mike Hulme | 14/03/2020

Listen to this interview with Fergal Byrne for his ‘Sustainability Agenda‘ podcast. The conversation is about climate change from a perspective that encompasses the relationship between science and policy, science and culture, the politics of climate change, and the...

Is the concept of climate ‘tipping point’ helpful?

Mike Hulme | 11/03/2020

A new paper published today in Nature Communications suggest that “shifts in Earth ecosystems occur over ‘human’ timescales of years and decades, meaning the collapse of large vulnerable ecosystems, such as the Amazon rainforest and Caribbean coral reefs, may...

Why Extinction Rebellion’s Tactics Are Deeply Misguided

Mike Hulme | 20/02/2020

Extinction Rebellion’s latest protest against ‘recalcitrant public authorities’ in the fight against climate has been this week to blockade the most strategic road junction in the city of Cambridge. And as a spin-out action to dig-up one of the...

Climate change and Syrian war

Mike Hulme | 14/02/2020

Marwa Daoudy, a political scientist from Georgetown University, Washington DC, has just published her new book with Cambridge University Press — ‘The Origins of the Syrian Conflict: Climate Change and Human Security‘. Daoudy examines critically the claim that the...

Recruiting a new post-doc

Mike Hulme | 08/02/2020

Making Climate History A new Leverhulme-funded project in the Departments of History and Philosophy of Science and Geography, University of Cambridge We are soliciting applications for these new poisitions to work on this project (note the different closing dates): • One research and teaching associate in the Dept. of Geography (2020–24) – closing date 9 March […]

Climate Change in Court

Mike Hulme | 22/01/2020

Last Friday, 17 January, a US court “reluctantly” quashed a climate lawsuit brought by 21 young people against the US government. The judge determined that “the plaintiffs’ impressive case for redress must be presented to the political branches of...

Major Publications 2019

Mike Hulme | 02/01/2020

Asayama,S. and Hulme,M. (2019) Engineering climate debt: temperature overshoot and peak shaving as risky subprime mortgage lending Climate Policy 19(8), 937-946 Asayama,S., Bellamy,R., Geden,O., Pearce,W. and Hulme,M. (2019) Why setting a climate deadline is dangerous Nature Climate Change 9(8), 570-572 Boas,I., Farbotko,C., Adams,H. …. Black,R. and Hulme,M. (2019) Climate migration myths Nature Climate Change 9(12), […]

Published today: Contemporary Climate Change Debates

Mike Hulme | 11/12/2019

Contemporary Climate Change Debates: A Student Primer is published today—Thursday 12 December–and your pre-ordered copies will be on their way to you. Routledge are presently offering a special publication price when ordered through them of £27.99 for paperback and...

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