Mike Hulme in Australia

(19 May)  Various talks and interviews from my recent visit to Australia are now available on-line.  You can listen here to an interview with me on the ABC radio show Artworks about climate change and the role of science museums, broadcast on Sunday 8 May.  The interview is 20 minutes long and also includes discussion with […]

Understanding perceptions of abrupt climate change

(1 May)  “Beyond the ‘tipping point’: understanding perceptions of abrupt climate change and their implications”  This manuscript, co-authored with one of my students, has now been published in the journal Weather, Climate and Society.  It reports an empirical study using Cultural Theory of how peoples beliefs affect their perceptions of proposed ‘tipping points’ in the Earth system.

Australian speaking tour

(13 April) Updated: I shall be visiting Australia during the first week of May and speaking at a number of events in Victoria and New South Wales, including the keynote lecture at the Hot Science, Global Citizens symposium in Sydney (5-6 May), a public lecture at the Sydney Powerhouse Museum (5 May), a lunchtime lecture at the […]

Explorations of a heatwave

(3 March)  I have a new paper which is under review for the journal Climatic Change as part of a special issue edited by Georgina Endfield.  “‘Telling a different tale’: literary, historical and meteorological readings of a Norfolk heatwave” is an exploration of how climatic episodes can be imagined and studied in different ways, each of which yields […]