Mike Hulme

(30 January 2010)  You can follow my evolving views on the science and politics of climate change by reading these 16 short statements, all of which have appeared in the journal Nature during the period 1997-2010.

(10 February 2010)  Read my opinion commentary in Nature, along with the views of four others, about what needs to happen to the IPCC.

(3 February 2010)  Read here on SciDev.net my thoughts about the mini-crisis now afflicting the IPCC.

(29 January 2010)  Read my thoughts on the future of climate policy in the light of Copenhagen, as interviewed for Nature Reports Climate Change.

(12 January)  Read my comments on the outcome of COP15 here at Seed Magazine.com, a US-based e-magazine reflecting on science, culture, innovation and society.   My argument is that we must use the 12 months until Mexico City to cut our losses and rethink a more pragmatic set of approaches for managing climate and its attendant risks.

(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’.

(1 December)  ‘SHOW YOUR WORKING’: What ClimateGate means.  Read this Green Room Commentary, written with Jerry Ravetz, from the BBC News On-line web site.

(16 November) Read my commentary on The Ecologist website about why we shouldn’t expect much from the Copenhagen negotiations, and thoughts about alternative strategies and, for a (very) different readership, at The Mail on-line.

(November)  WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO ‘BELIEVE’ IN CLIMATE CHANGE?  Read my reflections on the seminal UK legal case of Nicholson vs Grainger plc. in which an employment tribunal judge, Justice Sir Michael Burton, ruled on whether or not belief in climate change can be deemed to be ‘philosophical’.

(October) RETHINK: contemporary art and climate change:  Mike Hulme’s essay Learning to accept re-created climates contributes to a new on-line forum where debaters from the all over the world engage with climate change, art and culture.  The writers are artists, philosophers, scientists, politicians, indigenes and business people with different views on how climate change affects the way we live and view the world.  The debaters explore how climate change leads to new understandings and definitions of some of these established domains, and how they interfere with one and another.  Have a look at my contribution under the theme of Nature and poke around in the variety of interesting articles and contribute with your opinion and your view on climate change and its different aspects of life.