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.

You can view here my opening remarks in the debate on the science and politics of climate change, held at the Institute of Economic Affairs on 23 November 2009.

(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.

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

(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

(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’.