An Evening with Mike Hulme, Professor of Climate Change at the University of East Anglia

Tickets are £8 to include a glass of wine or fruit juice.
Available from Alison Wakefield on 0207 529 1563 or email alison_wakefield@esu.org. Copies of the author's book will be available for signing and purchase.

Mike Hulme is Professor of Climate Change at the University of East Anglia and Founding Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research.
He will present his new book:
Why We Disagree About Climate Change: Understanding
Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity

Drawing upon 25 years of professional work as an international climate
change scientist and public commentator, Mike Hulme provides a unique
insider’s account of the emergence of this phenomenon and the diverse
ways in which it is understood. He uses different standpoints from science,
economics, faith, psychology, communication, sociology, politics and
development to explain why we disagree about climate change.

In this way he shows that climate change, far from being simply an ‘issue’ or a ‘threat’,can act as a catalyst to revise our perception of our place in the world. Why We Disagree About Climate Change is an important contribution to the ongoing debate over climate change and its likely impact on our lives.
‘This is a very rare book. A scientifi c book about climate change, that deals
both with the science, and our own personal response to this science. It
does all this supremely well, and should be compulsory reading for both
sceptics and advocates. However, it does so much more, it is a book of great modesty and humanity. It uses climate change to ask questions more broadly about our own beliefs, assumptions and prejudices, and how we make individual and collective decisions.’

Chris Mottershead, Distinguished Advisor, BP p.l.c.