Mike Hulme

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

background

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

He is the founding director of the Tyndall Center for Climate Change Research, which opened in 2000 . In 2002 he was appointed Professor of Environmental Science at the University of East Anglia in Norwich , after having worked there in research from 1988–1997. He completed a stay abroad in 1986 as a lecturer for the British Council at the University of Zimbabwe in Harare and was a lecturer in geography at the University of Salford from 1984–1988 . In 2013 Hulme moved from the University of East Anglia to the Department of Geography at King's College London , which he became head of in 2016. In 2017 he went to the University of Cambridge , where he accepted a position as Professor of Human Geography in the Department of Geography .

2006–2009, Hulme was head of the EU project ADAM (Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies). He is co-editor u. a. of the journal Global Environmental Change and editor-in-chief of Interdisciplinary Reviews of Climate Change (WIRE's Climate Change).

Awards

Position on climate change

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Hulme sees climate change not only as a scientific, but above all as a political and social challenge. A global solution to climate change is no more conclusive than such a solution to democracy or human rights . Climate is much more than a compilation of measurement data. He considers the perspective of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to be too narrow.

The climate is a historical, geographical and anthropological phenomenon of human perception. He misses in the global warming controversy about the economics beyond social and humanistic perspectives.

Concepts such as normal , correct or appropriate climate are completely inadequate in view of the diverse climatic conditions, historical changes and the associated human adaptations, just as a social climate of fear does not contribute to possible strategies and concrete handling of climatic challenges.

Hulme is one of the authors of the Hartwell Paper , which was published in May 2010 by the London School of Economics in collaboration with the University of Oxford . Accordingly, with the UN climate summit in Copenhagen in 2010, the post-Kyoto process also failed. The Kyoto Protocol and its continuation have therefore not resulted in any significant reductions in greenhouse gases in 15 years.

Personal

As a player and spectator, Hulmes is intensely involved with cricket . With a family history reconstructed over a period of 250 years with ancestors from all parts of Great Britain and Ireland, researching his own genealogy and Britishness are also among his hobbies.

Publications (excerpt)

  • 1992: A 1951-80 global land precipitation climatology for the evaluation of General Circulation Models , Climate Dynamics , 7, pp. 57-72
  • 1997, with EM Barrow (Ed.): Climates of The British Isles: present, past and future , Routledge London, ISBN 0415130166
  • 1999, with EM Barrow, N. Arnell, PA Harrison, TE Downing and TC Johns: Relative impacts of human-induced climate change and natural climate variability , Nature , 397, pp. 688-691.
  • 2002, with GJ Jenkins, X. Lu, JR Turnpenny, TD Mitchell, RG Jones, J. Lowe, JM Murphy, D. Hassell, P. Boorman, R. McDonald and S. Hill: Climate change scenarios for the UK: the UKCIP02 scientific report , Tyndall Center, UEA, Norwich, UK, p. 112ff.
  • 2008: Geographical work at the boundaries of climate change , Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 33 (1), pp. 5-11.
    • with S. Dessai: Ventures should not overstate their aims just to secure funding , Correspondence in Nature, June 19, 453, 979
    • The Star Wars solution to climate change that will crash back to Earth , Times Higher Education, June 26, pp. 24-25
    • 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
  • 2009, with S. Dessai, I. Lorenzoni and D. Nelson: 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
    • with H. Neufeldt and H. Colyer: ADAM final report , Tyndall Center, UEA, Norwich, p. 44ff.
    • with I. Lorenzoni: Believing is seeing: laypeople's views of future socio-economic and climate change through scenarios in England and Italy , Public Understanding of Science 18, pp. 383-400
  • 2014: Dispute about climate change , oekom Verlag 2014, ISBN 978-3-86581-459-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ about me. Retrieved on July 27, 2018 (personal website).
  2. ↑ Interview with Hulme in The Register , May 6, 2009
  3. ↑ Why We Disagree About Climate Change, Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity, Mike Hulme, Cambridge University Press 2009, ISBN 9780521727327
  4. ↑ a b Prins, Gwyn et al .: The Hartwell Paper - A new direction for climate policy after the crash of 2009 (PDF; 4.7 MB) London School of Economics . May 2010. Retrieved May 12, 2010.
  5. ↑ Mike Hulme: After the crash - a new direction for climate policy , BBC News . May 11, 2010. Retrieved May 12, 2010. 
personal data
SURNAME Hulme, Mike
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hulme, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British climatologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH London