Mike Hulme

Mike Hulme has an H-Index of 33 (December 2009). A full listing all career publications can be downloaded here: Hulme Publications December 2009.  Scroll down this page for archived publications listed by year.  Click here for recent (2010) 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).

Most cited publications (citation counts derived from Scopus unless otherwise stated).

(750) New,M., Hulme,M. and Jones,P.D. (2000) Representing twentieth century space-time climate variability. Part 2: development of 1901-96 monthly grids of terrestrial surface climate J.Climate, 13(13), 2217-2238

(668) New,M., Hulme,M. and Jones,P.D. (1999) Representing twentieth century space-time climate variability. Part 1: development of a 1961-90 mean monthly terrestrial climatology J.Climate, 12(2-3), 829-856

(480) Hulme,M., Jenkins,G.J., Lu,X., Turnpenny,J.R., Mitchell,T.D., Jones,R.G., Lowe,J., Murphy,J.M., Hassell,D., Boorman,P., McDonald,R. and Hill,S. (2002)   Climate change scenarios for the UK: the UKCIP02 scientific report Tyndall Centre,  UEA,  Norwich,  UK,  112pp. [citation count obtained from Google Scholar]

(350) New,M., Lister,D., Hulme,M. and Makin,I. (2002) A high-resolution data set of surface climate over global land areas Climate Research 21(1), 1-25

(168) Hulme,M., Doherty,R.M., Ngara,T., New,M. and Lister,D. (2001) African climate change: 1900-2100 Climate Research 17(2), 145-168

(150) Hulme,M. (1992) A 1951-80 global land precipitation climatology for the evaluation of General Circulation Models Climate Dynamics, 7(2), 57-72

(140) Osborn,T.J., Hulme,M., Jones,P.D. and Basnett,T.A. (2000) Observed trends in the daily intensity of UK precipitation Int. J. Climatol. 20(4), 347-364

(133) Hulme,M. Osborn,T.J. and Johns,T.C. (1998) Precipitation sensitivity to global warming: comparison of observations with the HadCM2 simulations Geophys. Res. Letts. 25(17), 3379-3382

Adger, W. N., Huq, S., Brown, K., Conway, D. and Hulme, M. (2009) Adaptation to climate change in the developing world   pp.161-185 in, Earthscan reader in adaptation to climate change  (eds.) Schipper, E. L. and Burton, I.,  Earthscan,  London

Adger,W.N., Dessai,S., Goulden,M., Hulme,M., Lorenzoni,I., Nelson,D., Otto-Naess,L., Wolf,J. and Wreford,A. (2009)   Are there social limits to adaptation to climate change?   Climatic Change   93,  335-354  doi 10.1007/s10584-008-9520-z

Dessai,S., Hulme,M., Lempert,R. and Pielke,R. jr. (2009)   Climate prediction: a limit to adaptation?  Chapter 5 in, Adapting to climate change: thresholds, values, governance  (eds.) Adger,W.N., Lorenzoni,I. and O’Brien,K.  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,  530pp.

Dessai,S., Hulme,M., Lempert,R. and Pielke,R. jr. (2009)   Do we need better predictions to adapt to a changing climate?    EOS  90(13),  111-112

Girod,B., Wiek,A., Mieg,H. and Hulme,M. (2009)  The evolution of the IPCC’s emission scenarios – changes, causes and critical aspects    Environmental Science and Policy   12(2),  103-118   doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2008.12.006

Hulme,M. (2009)   A belief in climate  pp.85-98 in, Real Scientists, Real Faith  (ed.) Berry,S.,  Monarch (Lion Hudson),  Oxford,  288pp.

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

Hulme,M. (2009)   Why we disagree about climate change: understanding controversy, inaction and opportunity   Cambridge University Press,  Cambridge,  393pp.

Hulme,M. (2009)  mediating the messages about climate change: reporting the IPCC Fourth Assessment in the UK print media  pp.117-128 in, Climate change and the media  (eds.) Boyce,T. and Lewis,J.,  Peter Lang,  New York,  261pp.

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

Hulme,M., Dessai,S., Lorenzoni,I. and Nelson,D. (2009)  Unstable climates: exploring the statistical and social constructions of ‘normal’ climate   Geoforum   40(2),  197-206  doi 10.1016/j.geoforum.2008.09.010

Hulme,M., Neufeldt,H. and Colyer,H. (eds.) (2009)   ADAM final report.  Tyndall Centre,  UEA,  Norwich,  44pp.

Hulme,M., Pielke,R.A.jr. and Dessai,S. (2009)  Keeping prediction in perspective  Nature Reports Climate Change  Issue 11,  29 October  doi:10.1038/climate.2009.110

Hulme,M. and Turnpenny,J. (2009)  What does applying ‘scientific values’ mean in reality? Correspondence in Nature  9 April,  458,  702

Lorenzoni,I. and Hulme,M. (2009)   Believing is seeing: laypeople’s views of future socio-economic and climate change through scenarios in England and Italy  Public Understanding of Science   18,  383-400

O’Neill,S.J. and Hulme,M. (2009)   An iconic approach for representing climate change  Global Environmental Change  19(4),  402-410

NEW Publications (December 2009)  The following three papers have been accepted for publication and are ‘in press’:

Hulme,M. (2010)  Mapping climate change knowledge – an editorial essay  WIREs Climate Change   1(1),  1-7

Hulme,M. (2010)  Claiming and adjudicating on Kilimanjaro’s shrinking glaciers: Guy Callendar, Al Gore and extended peer communities  Science as Culture   Vol.19

Hulme,M. (2010)   Cosmopolitan climates: hybridity, foresight and meaning  Theory, Culture and Society

In the interests of openness and transparency I here declare my professional sources of income and the funders of my research over recent years.

I am employed by the UEA as a professor and receive a negotiable professorial salary

I also receive an annual honorarium of less than £5,000 from Wiley-Blackwell in recognition of my duties as Editor-in-Chief of the journal WIREs Climate Change

I receive, on average, aggregate payments of less than £3,000 per year for various media writings and appearances

I am currently a co-investigator on a £216,000 Leverhulme Trust grant and I currently supervise two PhD students who are funded by the ESRC and by the UEA respectively

In the last 10 years I have been principal (or co-) investigator on research grants and contracts totalling about £30 million, primarily about £16m from RCUK (for the Tyndall Centre) and around €12m from EU FP6 (for the ADAM project).  Over the last 20 years I have also received smaller research grants or contracts amounting to around £4 million from, inter alia, Defra, MAFF, DfID, WWF-International, UNDP, Scottish Executive, EU Commission, MRC, NERC, EPSRC, IPCC, Hadley Centre, Royal Society, European Environment Agency, Leverhulme Trust.  See Current Projects a more complete list.

Over the last 20 years I have also undertaken a variety of smaller consulting tasks (between £100 and £5,000) for a wide variety of organisations, many of whom are listed below: BP Amoco, CICERO/UNEP, CICERO/World Bank, Department of the Environment (UK), Global Environment Facility, Mott MacDonald/Anglian Water, Mott MacDonald/BNFL, Mott MacDonald/World Bank, Nirex, Overseas Development Institute/World Bank, Overseas Development Administration (UK), UNDP/World Bank, UNEP, UNDP, University of Reading/World Bank, Science Museum, World Commission for Dams, WS Atkins Engineering Ltd.

Information about current and recently completed research projects for which I am/was the Principal, or Co-Principal, Investigator.

Current Research Contracts

Framing energy futures and risk: exploring public understandings, 2007-2011 (with Irene Lorenzoni and Jacquie Burgess) (Leverhulme Energy, £216,000)

Recently Completed Contracts and Grants

ADAM: adaptation and mitigation strategies in support of European climate policy, 2006-2009 (EU DG-Research, €11,950,000)

Tyndall Centre (Phase 2), 2006-2009 (contract with NERC, EPSRC and ESRC worth £5.7m).

Simplicity, complexity and modelling, 2006-2008 (with Suraje Dessai) (EPSRC, £18,000)

Tyndall Centre Phase 1 (plus extension), 2000-2006 (NERC, EPSRC, ESRC, £10,897,000).  You can read here an independent assessment by PA Consulting Group of the economic impact of the Tyndall Centre, commissioned by Research Councils UK, October 2007.

Towards a research agenda for climate stabilisation, 2004-2005 (Defra, £68,000)

Adaptation and vulnerability in Europe, 2004-2006 (European Environment Agency, €160,000)

Tyndall Centre Business Liaison function, 2000-2005 (DTI, £358,000)

UKCIP02 climate change scenarios, 2000-2002 (Defra, £160,000)

Climate Observations and Model Evaluation, 1999-2001 (UK DETR: £195,338): evaluating climate model performance, especially with regard to the Hadley Centre

ECLAT-2 Concerted Action, 1998-2001 (EU DGXII: €248,900): towards the improvement of climate change scenario development and application

ACACIA Concerted Action, 1998-2000 (EU DGXII: expenses only): assessing the potential effects of climate change in Europe

Climate Change Scenarios for Wales, 1999-2000 (National Assembly of Wales): contribution to a ‘Scoping Study of Climate Change Impacts in Wales’

Climate Change in the UK, 1999-2000 (UK Department of Health): contribution to a DoH report ‘Climate Change and Health in the UK’

Regional weather scenarios for Scotland, 2000 (Scottish Executive: £17,076): analysis of Regional Climate Model experiment for Scotland

Database of global climate change impacts, 2000 (UK DETR: £19,283): joint project with W.S.Atkins and Centre for Ecology and Hydrology

Country Climate Change Scenarios, 1999 (WWF: $142,000): national scenario leaflets for 15 countries

UKCIP98 Climate Change Scenarios, 1998 (UK DETR: £17,500): the national climate change scenarios for the UK Climate Impacts Programme

CLIVARA, 1995-1998 (EU DGXII: £55,000): climate change, climate variability and agriculture in Europe

Climate Change and Southern Africa, 1994-1996 (WWF International: £86,500): an exploration of some potential impacts and implications

(4 December) One of The Economist magazine’s select ‘Books of the year’: Why We Disagree About Climate Change: understanding controversy, inaction and opportunity.  The citation says “How global warming has been transformed from a physical phenomenon that is measurable and observable by scientists into a social, cultural and political one, by a professor of climate change at the (now controversial) University of East Anglia. In the crowded and noisy world of climate-change publications, this book will stand out.” 

Read these reviews of Why We Disagree About Climate Change, by:

Karim Bardeesy from Toronto’s The Globe and Mail reviews it here alongside Al Gore’s Our Choice and James Hoggan’s Climate Cover-up.  She says, “Hulme’s open-minded approach can be used to help people who feel a nagging concern about climate change figure out the source of their concern and define what to do about it more clearly.”

Professor Gwyn Prins in the journal International Affairs  2009 (Nov), 85(6),  1261-1262

Sustainability Forum com review the book here. 

Ralph Underhill in the journal ECOS: a review of conservation,  2009 (Summer), 30(2),  100-102

The results of the ADAM Project will be published through a mini-series of four books from Cambridge University Press.  The first of these - the synthesis volume, Making Climate Change Work For Us - is now published (see below), and the three other books will appear from CUP early in 2010: Global Climate Governance Beyond 2012 (eds. Biermann et al.), Climate Change Policy in the European Union (eds. Jordan et al.) and Mainstreaming Climate Change in Development Cooperation (Gupta and van der Grijp).

(3 December)  THE SCIENCE AND POLITICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE.  Read my reflections on the relationship between the science and politics of climate change in this Wall Street Journal op-ed and a second take on the same matter in The Guardian newspaper, ‘Laboratories’ Outer Limits’.

(December)  Read this review and interesting interpretation of Why We Disagree About Climate Change from Richard D North.