Mike Hulme

Mike Hulme ( born July 23, 1960) is a British geographer and climatologist.

Background

Hulme studied geography and graduated in 1981 with a BSc from the University of Durham from. He received his PhD in 1985 in Applied Climatology at the University of Wales in Swansea to Secular climatic and hydrological change in central Sudan.

He is a founding director of the British and named after John Tyndall in 2000 opened the Centre for Climate Change Research. He was appointed Professor of Environmental Science at the University of East Anglia in Norwich after he was already active in the 1988-1997 research area there in 2002. A stay abroad he graduated in 1986 as a lecturer at the British Council at the University of Zimbabwe in Harare and was from 1984 to 1988 professor of geography at the University of Salford. 2006-2009 he was Head of the EU project ADAM ( Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies ) and is co-editor of the journal Global Environmental Change and chief editor of Interdisciplinary Reviews of Climate Change.

Awards

Position on climate change

Hulme sees climate change not only as a scientific, but also as a political and social challenge. A global solution to climate change is just as little as possible conclusively such a solution of democracy or human rights. Climate was much more than a collection of measurement data. The view angle of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC ) he considers too narrow.

If it were in the air at a historical, geographical and anthropological interpretable phenomenon of human perception. He missed in the controversy surrounding global warming on the economics beyond the humanities and social science perspectives.

Concepts such as normal, proper or adequate air were given the diverse climatic conditions, historical changes and the associated human adaptations completely inadequate, as well as a social climate of fear not would contribute to possible strategies and concrete dealing with climatic challenges.

Hulme is one of the authors of the Hartwell Paper, which was released in May by the London School of Economics in collaboration with the University of Oxford, 2010. According to the UN climate summit in Copenhagen failed in 2010 and the post-Kyoto process. The Kyoto Protocol and its sequel had revealed thus in 15 years, no significant reductions in greenhouse gases.

Personal

He deals extensively with cricket, as players and spectators. Given a date over 250 years reconstructed family history with ancestors from all parts of Britain and Ireland also researching their own genealogy and Britishness is one of his hobbies.

Publications (excerpt)

  • Hulme, M. ( 1992): A 1951-80 global precipitation climatology for the country evaluation of General Circulation Models, Climate Dynamics, 7, pp. 57-72
  • Hulme, M. and Barrow, E. M. ( Ed.) ( 1997): Climates of The British Isles: present, past and future, Routledge London, ISBN 0415130166
  • Hulme, M., Barrow, EM, Arnell, N., Harrison, PA, TEDowning and TCJohns (1999): Relative impacts of human -induced climate change and natural climate variability, Nature, 397, pp. 688-691.
  • Hulme, M., Jenkins, GJ, Lu, X., Turnpenny, JR, Mitchell, TD, Jones, RG, Lowe, J., Murphy, JM, Hassell, D., Boorman, P., McDonald, R. and Hill, S. (2002): Climate change scenarios for the UK: the UKCIP02 scientific report, Tyndall Centre, UEA, Norwich, UK, pp. 112ff.
  • Hulme, M. and Dessai, S. (2008): Ventures Should not overstate Their AIMS just to secure funding, Correspondence in Nature, June 19, 453, 979
  • Hulme, M. (2008): The Star Wars solution to climate change thatwill crash back to Earth, Times Higher Education, June 26, pp. 24-25
  • Hulme, M. (2008): The conquering of climate: discourses of fear and Their dissolution, Geographical Journal 174 ( 1), 5-16 doi: 10.1111/j.1475-4959.2008.00266.x
  • Hulme, M., Dessai, S., Lorenzoni, I. and Nelson, D. (2009): Unstable climates: exploring the statistical and social constructions of ' normal' climate, Geoforum 40 (2 ), pp. 197-206 doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2008.09.010
  • Hulme, M., Neufeldt, H. and Colyer, H. ( Ed.) ( 2009): ADAM final report, Tyndall Centre, UEA, Norwich, pp. 44ff.
  • Lorenzoni, I. and Hulme, M. (2009): Believing is seeing: laypeople 's views of future socio -economic and climate change scenarios through in England and Italy, Public Understanding of Science 18, pp. 383-400
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