Negotiating Climate Change in Crisis

Mike Hulme | 02/10/2021

I have two chapters in the recently published book with OpenBook Publishers in Cambridge, ‘Negotiating Climate Change in Crisis: Social Science Perspectives‘. This is a collection of 28 essays written by social scientists, and edited by Steffen Böhm, Exeter...

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Reading Climate Change Backwards: Five Varieties

Mike Hulme | 30/09/2021

Climate change is everywhere.  In everyday speech, protest, advocacy, science, the arts, business and diplomacy.  And there are of course some physical correlates to this discursive reality of climate change, namely changes occurring in the physical dynamics of the...

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Advice to Christian Geography Professors

Mike Hulme | 31/08/2021

Earlier this year, I was invited by the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Christian Scholar’s Review, Professor Perry Glanzer, to contribute to a series of essays entitled, “Advice to Christian [fill in the academic discipline].”  Glanzer’s inspiration for the series...

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COVID-19, Climate Change and Emergency Politics

Mike Hulme | 30/08/2021

What can the COVID-19 pandemic teach us about handling the climate crisis? Listen to this new podcast with Ingrid Rieser and her ‘Forest of Thought’ podcast. We’ve seen that governments have not hesitated to take bold action when faced...

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Universities Should Help Break the Wall Between Facts and Values

Mike Hulme | 24/08/2021

Managing climate change and pandemics alike requires ‘values-first’ approaches to public policy development, not ‘science-first’ rhetoric. Read this new essay in the Times Higher Education. If you cannot access the pay-wall, the article is reproduced in full below. In...

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Scotland, Awake! An Autocracy Awaits You

Mike Hulme | 20/08/2021

As I have repeatedly warned on this blog – ‘Mobilising for War’, ‘Sleepwalking into Totalitarianism’ – that it is much easier to declare an emergency than it is to end one, much easier for a state to appropriate powers...

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The IPCC’s Mistaken “Science-First” Approach to Climate Change

Mike Hulme | 09/08/2021 | 1 Comment

The first of four separate reports comprising the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) was released today.  This is the report of Working Group 1 (WG1), ‘The Physical Science Basis of Climate Change’.  It makes for dramatic headlines and grabs...

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Balancing a budget or running a deficit? The offset regime of carbon removal and solar geoengineering under a carbon budget

Mike Hulme | 29/07/2021

In this new article, published today in the journal Climatic Change, my colleagues Shin Asayama and Nils Markusson and I examine a paradox of adopting a carbon budget as a policy tool. The very idea of a finite carbon...

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‘Climate Change’: A Synopsis

Mike Hulme | 01/07/2021

My new book on climate change, in the Key Ideas in Geography series from Routledge, is published on 27 July 2021. You can pre-order paperback or Kindle editions now with a 20% discount. Here is a synopsis of the...

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An Interview with Mike Hulme

Mike Hulme | 30/06/2021

Emeritus Professor Hans von Storch has been carrying out interviews with climate and atmospheric scientists for more than 25 years. I was von Storch’s 13th interview in this series, the interview conducted jointly with Professor Martin Claussen of the...

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