Boris Johnson bends down at a desk in parliament, embodying the principle there is more to life.

‘There is More to Life than the Absence of Disease’

Mike Hulme | 15/06/2021

For those familiar with this blog over the last 15 months, you will be aware of my views about the futility of the UK Government’s de facto Zero-Covid policy, and the undermining of liberal democracy and the huge public...

University of East Anglia Climategate scandal to be turned into movie, The Trick.

“The Trick”: ‘Climategate’, the movie

Mike Hulme | 10/06/2021

The BBC have announced they have commissioned a movie about the 2009 Climategate controversy. Filming for “The Trick” will be starting shortly and some of the cast have been announced. The scriptwriter is Owen Sheers, author, poet and playwright...

A group of people sitting on a blanket in a field, ausrufen den Klimanotstand.

„Wir sollten keinen Klimanotstand ausrufen“

Mike Hulme | 07/06/2021

Read here my interview with Welt journalist Axel Bojanowski, published online, 6 June 2021 (in German) … “As a renowned geographer, Mike Hulme warns of an alarmist climate policy. A conversation about good counterarguments, ambitious experts – and skeptics...

The New Climate War: Environmental Activism by Michael Brown.

The Manichean Mann. Review of ‘The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet’

Mike Hulme | 03/06/2021

Mann, M.E. (2021) The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet. New York: Public Affairs. Michael Mann has been in the climate wars for well over a decade now. As he reminds us frequently in this...

A green background with the words earth institute live sustainable what?.

Trust and Mistrust of Climate Science

Mike Hulme | 17/05/2021

You can watch this special Sustain What episode hosted on behalf of the Mellon-Sawyer Seminar on Trust and Mistrust of Science and Experts. (Andrew Revkin, normally the moderator of these sessions, is one of three guests this time, along...

The Environment: Can the Future Ever Be Green?

Mike Hulme | 12/05/2021

The recording of this on-line event is now available to view here. Hosted by Christian Evidence, 16 March 2021, 8-9pm In the fourth of a series of webinars conversations, Questions of our Times, Professor Mike Hulme, Professor of Human...

A large room with many people sitting at tables, organized by a global expert.

Knowing like a global expert organisation

Mike Hulme | 15/04/2021

Synthesising nearly 10 years of primary research, including two PhD theses (Maud Borie and Martin Mahony) and a MSc thesis (Noam Obermeister), our systemic comparison of the ‘knowledge ways’ of the IPCC and IPBES is today published in the...

A statue of a Roman emperor sleep-walking with a spear.

Sleep-walking into totalitarianism

Mike Hulme | 07/04/2021 | 1 Comment

Just over a year ago on this blog I warned of the dangerous consequences for democracy of declaring “emergencies”. “Taking decisive action against ‘the enemy’”, I said then, “whether [it be] Coronavirus or climate change, comes at a cost....

An illustration of a lock with a syringe attached to it, symbolizing the task of conquering coronavirus.

“Our task turns from conquering coronavirus to preserving liberty”

Mike Hulme | 29/03/2021

A few weeks ago, I wrote an essay here titled ‘Re-Socialising a Vaccinated World Requires Political Struggle‘. My argument was that as the authoritarian regulation of public life extends and continues, the erosion of collective and individual freedoms will...

An old photo of Eduard Brückner Prize 2021 winning man with glasses and a beard.

The 2021 Eduard Brückner Prize

Mike Hulme | 18/03/2021

The Eduard Brückner Prize has been established for outstanding interdisciplinary achievements in climate research. The award is named after the outstanding geographer Eduard Brückner (1862-1927), who, in addition to researching the ice age climate in the Alps and the...

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