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...

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 […]

Energy Humanities Podcast

Mike Hulme | 16/05/2017

Listen to me talking about ‘the many meanings of climate’ (starts at 10:00 minutes), recorded with Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer for their Cultures of Energy blog, part of the Centre for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human...

Major Publications 2016

Mike Hulme | 20/03/2017 | 1 Comment

Hulme,M. (2016) ‘Climate change and memory’ Chapter 18 (pp.159-162) in: Memory in the twenty-first century: new critical perspectives from the sciences, arts and humanities (ed.) Sebastian Groes, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 428pp. Hulme,M. (2016) ‘Climate change: Varieties of religious engagement’ Chapter 25 (pp.239-248) in: Routledge handbook on religion and ecology (eds.) Jenkins,W., Tucker,M.E. and Grim,J., Routledge, […]

Political populism and sustainability

Mike Hulme | 17/03/2017

The first response of a scientist or scholar to surprising physical or cultural events is to want to understand them. And in this spirit, my reaction to the political events of 2016, and potentially to those yet to come,...

The cultural functions of climate

Mike Hulme | 07/12/2016

On 27 October 2016 I delivered the opening distinguished lecture of the 2016/17 session at the Institute of Social Sciences – Instituto Ciências Sociais – University of Lisbon. Drawing upon my new book ‘Weathered’ and titled ‘The cultural functions...

TV interview – TRT World: Trump and climate policy

Mike Hulme | 06/12/2016

You can see here my interview last Wednesday (30 November) on the Insights magazine programme of TRT World (Turkish) TV. My interview deals with climate policy following the Trump election and starts at 6:50 minutes, following the climate news...

“Deadline-ism”: when is it too late?

Mike Hulme | 05/12/2016

Last Thursday was the first day of December 2016. There was nothing particularly remarkable about the date. Except that it was exactly 100 months since Andrew Simms and the New Economics Foundation announced that the world had only 100...

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