(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.
Author: Mike Hulme
IPCC: Cherish, tweak or scrap?
(10 February 2010) Read my opinion commentary in Nature, along with the views of four others, about what needs to happen to the IPCC.
A changing climate for the IPCC
(3 February 2010) Read here on SciDev.net my thoughts about the mini-crisis now afflicting the IPCC.
The road from Copenhagen: the expert’s views
(29 January 2010) Read my thoughts on the future of climate policy in the light of Copenhagen, as interviewed for Nature Reports Climate Change.
Claims About Mountain Glaciers
(23 January 2010) Mountain glaciers have been very much in the news with the recent controversy about erroneous IPCC claims of disappearing Himalayan glaciers. I have a paper ‘in press’ with the journal Science as Culture about another controversy about disappearing mountain glaciers, this time those on Mt Kilimanjaro. You can read it here – Claiming and adjudicating […]
The end of a ‘unified framework’
(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.
Climate Datasets
I no longer work actively on the construction, evaluation and analysis of observational datasets, although much of my work in the 1990s was concerned with these aspects of climate change. The datasets of global precipitation and the standard monthly climatologies for global land areas are maintained now by the Climatic Research Unit. Enquiries should be directed […]
Major Publications 2009
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 […]
Current and Recent Funded Projects
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 […]
Chosen by The Economist as one of the ‘books of the year’
(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 […]
