Professor Mike Hulme
professor of human geography and head of department, University of Cambridge; author, Why We Disagree About Climate Change and Climate Change Isn’t Everything; former founding director, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research

Mike Hulme is professor of human geography at the University of Cambridge, where he is also head of department. His work illuminates the numerous ways in which the idea of climate change is deployed in public, political, religious and scientific discourse. He is the author of 12 books on climate change including, most recently, Climate Change Isn’t Everything: liberating climate politics from alarmism (Polity, 2023) and, co-editor, A Critical Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (CUP, 2022).

He is the author of the widely acclaimed Why We Disagree About Climate Change (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and from 2000 to 2007 was the founding director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. In 2007 he received a personal certificate recognising his contribution to the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to the IPCC. He is a professorial fellow at Pembroke College, Cambridge.

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