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...

Book review of ‘A cultural history of climate change’ (Bristow & Ford, 2015)

Mike Hulme | 18/11/2016

A cultural history of climate change, edited by Tom Bristow and Thomas H Ford, Abingdon and New York, Earthscan/Routledge, 2016, xix + 244 pp., ISBN 978-1-138-83816-1 (hbk); ISBN 978-1-315-73459-1 (pbk). (Review appeared in Green Letters: Studies in Eco-criticism, vol.21(1),...

The future of climate (abridged from ‘Weathered’)

Mike Hulme | 16/11/2016

My latest book Weathered: Cultures of Climate is published tomorrow (17 November) by Sage. Here, I offer a heavily abridged version of the final chapter of the book, ‘The future of climate’. Cultural theorist Arjun Appadurai has argued...

Epistemic geographies of climate change: science, space and politics

Mike Hulme | 15/11/2016

This review article, co-authored with Martin Mahony at the University of Nottingham, has recently been accepted for publication in the journal Progress in Human Geography. Here is the abstract: “Anthropogenic climate change has been presented as the archetypal global...

Anglophone Political Populism and the Future of Climate-Change

Mike Hulme | 09/11/2016

Today’s result in the US Presidential election follows hard on the back of the UK’s Brexit vote in June. Both results – an expression of collective public preference from the electorate – have shaken political and cultural establishments on...

The cultural functions of climate

Mike Hulme | 20/10/2016

I delivered the keynote lecture to the Royal Anthropological Institute’s international conference on Anthropology, Weather and Climate Change, held at the British Museum in May 2016. You can listen to the lecture here and view the accompanying slides here....

The role of language in the climate change debate

Mike Hulme | 20/10/2016

I have written this Foreword to the forthcoming book edited by Kjersti Fløttum, ‘The role of language in the climate change debate‘, due out with Routledge in 2017. Foreword In March 2015 the BBC screened a 90 minute TV...

Institutionalising climate prediction in the UK, 1988-1992

Mike Hulme | 15/10/2016

Mahony,M. and Hulme,M. (2016) Modelling and the nation: Institutionalising climate prediction in the UK, 1988-1992 Minerva 54(4), 445-470 doi:10.1007/s11024-016-9302-0 Using newly released archival materials and recently conducted interviews with key actors, we reconstruct negotiations between UK climate scientists and...

New book: “Weathered: Cultures of Climate”

Mike Hulme | 15/10/2016 | 1 Comment

Weathered: Cultures of Climate, will be published by SAGE in November 2016. This book in many ways is a prequel to Why We Disagree About Climate Change (CUP, 2009), in the sense that it deepens our understanding of the...

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