“If Hulme’s readers concede that the issue of climate change involves more ambiguity than perceivable in the public discourse, then this book will have served a purpose”. This review is written by Dr. Volker Hahn, a science journalist and a science communication expert in Leipzig, Germany. He has a Ph.D. in biogeochemistry from the Friedrich Schiller […]
Opinion column in The Times newspaper, published 25 July 2023, reproduced below. Based on my new book ‘Climate Change Isn’t Everything: Liberating Climate Politics From Alarmism‘ (Polity, 2023). “Towering above New York’s Union Square, a giant clock 80ft wide...
“Climate Change Isn’t Everything, But It Is Quite A Lot!”: Simon Maxwell’s review of ‘Climate Change Isn’t Everything’
Read Simon Maxwell’s review of ‘Climate Change Isn’t Everything‘. Simon is the former Director of the Overseas Development Institute, the UK’s leading independent think-tank on international development and humanitarian issues, and has worked internationally as a development economist since...
Mike Hulme on Andy Revkin’s ‘Sustain What?’ Podcast
July 6, 2023 “DESCRIPTION: Mike Hulme, a University of Cambridge geographer and longtime researcher focused on the human relationship to climate, worries that the idea of climate change might be more dangerous than the geophysical phenomenon itself. His latest...
‘Stop blaming everything on climate change’
An abridged extract from my new book ‘Climate Change Isn’t Everything’ was published in today’s issue of The Mail on Sunday. Not my usual venue for publication of course, but the 2,000 word essay captures the broad thrust of...
“I’ve quit UCU over its Putin-pleasing Ukraine motion”
I reproduce below an article which first appeared in the Times Higher Education on Tuesday 6 June 2023, written by Julia Bell, a reader in creative writing at Birkbeck, University of London. I resigned from the UCU, the Universities...
Extract from ‘Climate Change Isn’t Everything’
My latest book is published this week by Polity Press. I have pasted below a short extract from the Introduction to the book, explaining the background to the book, and its central argument … “Just over ten years ago...
How climate visions get constructed
In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews me about how climate visions get constructed. The conversation explores something about my career studying climate change and in particular discusses some of the methods, data, and...
Comment on “Solar Geoengineering: The Case for an International Non-Use Agreement” by Biermann et al.
The above Perspective article, for which I was the handling editor, was published on-line by WIREs Climate Change on 17 January 2022 following peer review. Wiley’s, the journal’s publisher, have today — 5th April 2023 — published an ‘Article Note’ to accompany this Perspective, referring to a formal complaint the publisher received about my handling […]
In Defence of the ‘Centre for Policy Research’, New Delhi
24 March 2023 I have lent my name to the following open letter, in which professors from universities in the USA, UK, Europe and Australia state why we are “shocked and dismayed” at the Government of India action against...
