Professor Mike Hulme

Professor Hulme is based in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and was the Founding Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research from 2000 to 2007.  His general research interest is global climate change – especially representations of climate change in history, society and the media, climate scenarios, and the interaction between climate change science and policy.  His latest book Why We Disagree About Climate Change was published by CUP in April this year. 

He has earlier prepared climate scenarios and reports for the UK Government (including the UKCIP98 and UKCIP02 scenarios), the European Commission, the IPCC, UNEP, UNDP and WWF-International.  He has advised numerous organizations including the European Commission, the UK Government, WWF-International, BP and the Science Museum.  He has published over 120 peer-reviewed journal papers and over 30 book chapters on these and other topics, together with over 230 reports and popular articles about climate change.  He is co-editor of the journal Global Environmental Change and editor-in-chief of the newly commissioned Wiley’s Interdisciplinary Review – Climate Change.

His website is here: www.mikehulme.org

Related Sessions
Saturday 31 October 2009, 1.30pm Lecture Theatre 2
Publications

Why We Disagree About Climate Change: understanding controversy, inaction and opportunity (CUP: 2009)


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