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
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, 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
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...