A poster for the climate change countdown.

Against climate emergency

Mike Hulme |
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...

WIREs Climate Change – rising impact factor

Mike Hulme |

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’ […]

Pink flowers flourish in a field near a building, exemplifying the Anthropocene.

Climate in the Anthropocene

Mike Hulme |
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...
A companion to the Environmental Studies Companion book cover.

Companion to Environmental Studies

Mike Hulme |
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,...