Mike Hulme

NEW Publication (15 May 2009)  Hulme,M., Boykoff,M., Gupta,J., Heyd,T., Jaeger,J., Jamieson,D., Lemos,M.C., O’Brien,K., Roberts,T., Rockstrom,J. and Vogel,C. (2009)   Conference covered climate from all angles   Science  324,  881-882

150 years ago today – on 18 May 1859 - John Tyndall’s experiments showed the existence of greenhouse gases and therefore ‘proved’ a greenhouse effect.

The New Scientist magazine – ‘The man who discovered greenhouse gases’ - and Prof Mike Hulme have marked this important birthday. 

NEW publication:  Hulme,M. (2009)  On the origin of the ‘greenhouse effect’: John Tyndall’s 1859 interrogation of Nature  Weather  64(5),  121-123

The March 2009 Copenhagen Climate Change Conference heard about much more research than simply that ‘climate change is worse than previously thought’.  Eleven of the Session chairs, led by Mike Hulme, wrote this letter to the journal Science.

The EU-funded ADAM project (Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies: Supporting European Climate Policy) which I have been coordinating delivered its key findings at a final policy conference, in Brussels from 12-14 May 2009.

The ADAM final report - Hulme,M., Neufeldt,H. and Colyer,H. (eds.) (2009)   Adaptation and mitigation strategies: supporting European climate policy.  The final report from the ADAM project.  Tyndall Centre,  UEA,  Norwich,  44pp. – highlights the key findings of the research under a number of different headings: integrated scenarios; emissions reductions; the 2 degree target; policy appraisal; policy development and governance; adaptive risk management and regional planning; adaptation and development policy. In order to encourage reflexive learning amongst the researchers, the final section summarizes the findings of two internal evaluations of their learning experiences within the project.

(11 May 2009)  Listen to this Science Weekly podcast at The Guardian newspaper:

What is it about the science and politics of climate change that so raises some people’s hackles? Mike Hulme, a climate scientist and author at the University of East Anglia and a founding director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, is proposing a radical change in the way we talk about global warming.

An interview with The Register about the relationship between knowledge, politics and climate change.