Mike Hulme

(August)   Read my review of Wolfgang Behringer’s book  ’A Cultural History of Climate’ at the on-line Reviews in History.

(21 July)   ‘The IPCC on trial: experimentation continues’   Read my Talking Point essay at Environmental Research Web.

(7 June)  ‘Climate intervention schemes could be undone by geopolitics’.  Read my opinion article posted here at Yale environment 360, which includes a scenario of the year 2028 when the first solar radiation management intervention scheme is sanctioned by the UN Secutiry Council.

(24 May ) Read here at Spiked on-line an interview with Mike Hulme – ‘We must stop saying ‘the science demands …’

(11 May)  Re-thinking climate change.  I am one of 14 authors of  The Hartwell Paper, published today (and here in Chinese), which outlines a new direction for climate policy following the crash of 2009.  See my editorial in the BBC Green Room, Richard Black’s commentary on it, and also The Economist.  I have published a separate essay on the same theme in the USA-based Environment magazine.  The BBC Radio 4 programme Costing the Earth covered the story in its 12 May broadcast.

(April)  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.

(30 March)   Read my feature article on the climate change debate in the spring issue of the Royal Society of Arts’ Journal.  “There’s no such thing as right and wrong when it comes to tackling climate change.  That’s why we need to stop looking for scapegoats and engage in honest discussion”.

(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.