I convene this Part 2 (final year) undergraduate course in the Department of Geography at Cambridge and co-teach it with Dr Amy Donovan and Dr Maan Barua. The course is concerned with the making and using of different kinds of environmental knowledges, engaging with literature from the geographies of science, science and technology studies and […]
Latest articles in WIREs Climate Change, Vol 10(4), 2019
The latest issue of WIREs Climate Change, Volume 10(4) 2019, is now available on-line. The 9 review articles in this issue include Jakob Skovgaard and Harro van Asselt on the politics of fossil fuel subsidies, Sophie Chiari on...
Engineering climate debt
My colleague Shin Asayama and I have co-authored this new paper, titled “Engineering climate debt: temperature overshoot and peak-shaving as risky subprime mortgage lending”, which is now available open-access online in the journal Climate Policy. In this paper, we...
Previous PhD Students
I have acted as primary supervisor for 16 PhD students, all of whom have successfully completed their doctorates. I have also been external or internal examiner for a further 27 PhD theses, in the UK, Australia, Canada and the Netherlands. Ramya Tella (2019): Knowledge, territoriality and the statecraft: the performance of authority in Indian climate […]
Debating Climate Change: A New Book
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
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?
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
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...