1: Do you believe human activities are at least in part responsible for driving global climate change? [Hulme] YESMike Hulme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2: Do you feel the evidence for this is sufficiently strong to start reducing emissions?
[Hulme] NO - to reduce emissions requires more evidence than that humans are altering climate. We need to know something about the potential risks associated with future climate change, whether these risks can be minimised through adaptive action and then have some socially negotiated basis for deciding about the necessity and extent of desirable emissions reductions. On none of these issues do we have a good basis to work from. The precautionary principle, if chosen, would imply start reducing emissions now - but I am not convinced a blind application of the precautionary principle in this case is the most appropriate instrument.
In 1988, after four years lecturing in geography at the University of Salford, he became for 12 years a senior researcher in the Climatic Research Unit, part of the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia. In October 2000 he founded the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, a distributed virtual network organisation headquartered at UEA, which he directed until July 2007