Welcome
I am Professor of Climate Change in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia (UEA). My work explores the idea of climate change using historical, cultural and scientific analyses, seeking to illuminate the numerous ways in which climate change is deployed in public and political discourse. I believe it is important to understand and describe the varied ideological, political and ethical work that the idea of climate change is currently performing across different social worlds.
My research interests are therefore concerned with representations of climate change in history, culture and the media; with how knowledge of climate change is constructed (especially through the IPCC) and the interactions between climate change knowledge and policy; and with the construction, application and evaluation of climate scenarios for impacts, adaptation and integrated assessments. I welcome approaches from graduate students seeking to study for a PhD in any of these areas.
I was the founding Director (2000-2007) of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. A longer bio and full CV – including a statement of my financial interests and research funders – can be found here, along with a personal statement about climate change.
VIEW ALL LATEST POSTS (11 March 2010)
(4 March) NEW REVIEW of Why We Disagree About Climate Change by Steve Yearley in the Times Higher Education (THE).
(25 February) The IPCC, Consensus and Science. Mike Hulme examines the different meanings attached to the idea of consensus in science and how it is used by the IPCC.
(17 February) One of The Economist magazine’s select ‘Books of the year’: Read here what people are saying about Why We Disagree About Climate Change.
(10 February 2010) IPCC: CHERISH IT, TWEAK IT OR SCRAP IT? Read my opinion commentary in Nature about what needs to happen to the IPCC and also here on SciDev.net for my thoughts about the mini-crisis now afflicting the IPCC.
(23 January 2010) CLAIMS ABOUT MOUNTAIN GLACIERS Mountain glaciers have been very much in the news with the recent controversy about erroneous IPCC claims of disappearing Himalayan glaciers. I have a paper ‘in press’ with the journal Science as Culture about another controversy about disappearing mountain glaciers, this time those on Mt Kilimanjaro. You can read it here - Claiming and adjudicating on Kilimanjaro’s shrinking glaciers: Guy Callendar, Al Gore and extended peer communities.
(January 2010) NOW LAUNCHED Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change. The first issue of this new climate change review journal is now available on-line. Free global access for 2 years. 
The 12 articles in this first issue include: the Asia Pacific Partnership, regional climate models, the ethics of climate change and the language of climate change communication.
My H-Index is 33 as of November 2009 (see archived publications). Thomson Reuters reports Mike Hulme as the 10th most cited author in the world in the field of climate change, between 1999 and 2009 (ScienceWatch, Nov/Dec 2009, see Table 2).
Contact Details
School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ
T: +44 (0)1603 593162; F: +44 (0)1603 593901; E: m.hulme at uea.ac.uk
Last updated: 11 March 2010