A cartography map showing the location of the roman empire.

Climate, cartography, and the life and death of the ‘natural region’ in British geography

Mike Hulme | 07/03/2023

This research article, co-written with my post-doctoral colleague Dr Tom Simpson, is recently published in the Journal of Historial Geography. Using the work of Scottish geographer Andrew Herbertson, we explore how the idea of ‘climate’ was a mutable concept...

Nature’s editorial about the IPCC and Mike Hulme’s new book

Mike Hulme | 04/03/2023

This week’s issue of Nature (2 March 2023), includes an editorial which discusses the book I edited with my colleague Kari de Pryck and which was published open-access in December: ‘A Critical Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...

An older woman, fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, with a feathered headdress in front of a group of people.

Meeting Vivienne Westwood

Mike Hulme | 08/01/2023

Vivienne Westwood died on the 29 December 2022. A larger than life character, I once had the opportunity to meet her – at her suggestion – to discuss her thoughts about climate change and a campaigning TV series, to...

Climate change isn't everything, Mike Hume suggests, emphasizing the role of climate politics and alarmism in shaping our understanding and responses.

‘Climate Change Isn’t Everything: Liberating Climate Politics From Alarmism’

Mike Hulme | 10/12/2022

My new book about the ideology of climatism will be published by Polity Press in late spring 2023. The manuscript has now been signed off and the book in production. A brief synopsis is provided below … “The changing...

A critical assessment, published today, of the intergovernmental panel on climate change.

Published today as open-access …

Mike Hulme | 08/12/2022

A Critical Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is published today, 8th December, by Cambridge University Press as open-access. The book is edited by myself and Kari De Pryck and is available fully open-access. Click here for...

A poster with the words "hot topic: why we care about the conversation about climate change.

In conversation … ‘Why we disagree about climate change’

Mike Hulme | 19/11/2022

As part of the 32nd University of Cambridge Alumni Festival held in September 2022, Professor Bhaskar Vira and I were in conversation about the nature of the questions that human-caused climate change is challenging us with. You can view...

‘Grasping the Intangible – Our Climate Change Predicament’

Mike Hulme | 05/11/2022

In the summer of 2021, my book ‘Climate Change’ was published by Routledge in their Key Ideas in Geography series. It has been selling steadily in the months following and is now being picked up on reading lists around the world and through citations. It has also been reviewed in a few places, the latest […]

Previous PhD Students

Mike Hulme | 04/11/2022

I have acted as primary supervisor for 18 PhD students, all of whom have successfully completed their doctorates. I have also been external or internal examiner for a further 28 PhD theses, in the UK, Australia, Canada and the Netherlands. Noam Obermeister (2023): How and what do science advisers learn? Insights from environmental science-policy in […]

A map of the British coast from 2022 UK Summer with people on the beach.

The 2022 UK Summer In Long-Term Perspective

Mike Hulme | 01/09/2022 | 1 Comment

With the summer season in the UK now over, it is instructive to place the hot, dry summer we have experienced into the longest possible historical perspective. How hot was the summer of 2022 as a whole? How dry...

A graph of the world's newspaper coverage of the latest climate change issue-attention cycle.

Has the latest climate change issue-attention cycle peaked?

Mike Hulme | 10/06/2022

Last month, Sky News moved its flagship daily climate show from its primetime slot of 8.30pm into the dead of the afternoon, a 15-minute weekday airing at 3.30pm. (It also announced that a new in-depth weekend programme would be...

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