Debating Climate Change: A New Book

Mike Hulme | 13/06/2019

It is unusual to find myself agreeing with Nigel Farage. But a comment he made a few months ago about the importance of teaching critical thinking at British universities puts him on my side. “Ultimately it seems to me...

The Nobel Conference: Climate Changed

Mike Hulme | 11/06/2019

From 24-25 September, I shall be speaking at the 2019 Nobel Conference at Adolphus Gustavus College at St.Peter, Minnesota. My talk ‘Beyond Climate Solutionism’ will be live-streamed here. The Conference theme this year is ‘Climate Change: Facing Our Future’...

Am I a denier, a human extinction denier?

Mike Hulme | 27/05/2019 | 1 Comment

There has been a lot of talk recently about climate change and extinction. It is undoubtedly the case that species go extinct. And sometimes large numbers of species disappear together in mass events caused by the same physical stresses....

Prospective PhD Students

Mike Hulme | 24/05/2019

I am interested to receive approaches from students who would like to study for a PhD with me in the areas of the cultural history of climate change, STS approaches to studying climate science and knowledge, representations and discourses of climate in the media, and the philosophy of climate and climate change. Please state clearly your […]

Climate change narratives: beyond the facts of science

Mike Hulme | 03/05/2019

Extended text of a speech delivered to the Royal Society/British Academy Workshop on Narrative and Science, 2 May 2019, Royal Society, London ?] Mike Hulme, University of Cambridge In 2015, the BBC screened a documentary on climate change called...

Morality by numbers? Against the regulatory power of carbon metrics

Mike Hulme | 22/03/2019

Mike Hulme, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge Presented at ‘Multiple Carbons: Historical and Contemporary Approaches to Governance’ Friday-Saturday 5-6 April 2019, Harvard University’s Center for the Environment Introduction In 2007, a new web-site CheatNeutral offered an on-line service...

PhD to professor: a conversation with Mike Hulme

Mike Hulme | 15/02/2019

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

Mike Hulme | 07/02/2019

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, January 2020

Mike Hulme | 03/01/2019

A comprehensive listing of all my publications, from 1981 to the present.

Major Publications 2018

Mike Hulme | 03/01/2019

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 […]

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