Read here my conversation with the Pembroke College blog about my career in geography, some of the decisions I took on the way from PhD to Professor, the importance of interdisciplinary networks, the challenges facing graduate students and academics today, and the value of a geographer’s approach to climate change.
Telling one story, or many? An ecolinguistic analysis of climate change stories in UK national newspaper editorials
This article, co-written with one of my Master’s students from King’s College London–Cherry Norton, has been published today in the journal Geoforum. The abstract is reproduced below. Media reporting of climate change plays a key role in shaping public...
Full list of Mike Hulme’s publications
A comprehensive listing of all publications, from 1981 to the present.
Major Publications 2018
Castree,N., Hulme,M. and Proctor,J.D. (eds.) (2018) Companion to environmental studies Routledge, Abingdon, 848pp. Gannon,K.E. and Hulme,M. (2018) Geoengineering ‘at the edge of the world’: exploring perceptions of ocean fertilization through the Haida Salmon Restoration Corporation GEO: Geography and Environment 5(1), e00054, 21pp. Hulme,M. (2018) “Gaps” in climate change knowledge: Do they exist? Can they be […]
Major Publications 2017
Hulme,M. (2017) Calculating the incalculable: is SAI the lesser of two evils? Ethics and International Affairs 31(4), 507-512 Hulme,M. (2017) Climate change (concept of) Entry in: The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology (eds.) Richardson,D., Castree,N., Goodchild,M.F., Kobayashi,A.L., Liu,W. and Marston,R., John Wiley & Sons, Malden, Oxford, 9,120pp. doi: 10.1002/9781118786352.wbieg0343 Hulme,M. […]
Climate change and Brexit: what to do when negotiations lead nowhere?
Last week saw conclusions to the latest round of two sets of negotiations. One concerned the UK’s exit from the European Union (so-called Brexit) and the other the latest attempt by the world’s nations to consolidate a workable climate...
Climatism and the Reification of Global Temperature
Over the last 40 years global-mean surface air temperature – ‘global temperature’ for short – has gained an extraordinary role in the science, politics and public discourse of climate change. What was once a number crudely calculated through averaging...
Against climate emergency
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...
The first climate scenario: a drama in three acts
The first scientific paper using the terminology of ‘scenario’ to describe the possible future evolution of climate was published in 1977 by the German meteorologist Hermann Flohn. It appeared as the first paper in the very first issue of...
London’s weather and the everyday: two centuries of newspaper reports
This new research article was published on 19 August 2018 in the Royal Meteorological Society’s journal Weather. (A pre-print of the article can be downloaded here). Written with one of my graduating geography students from King’s College London, Nick...