"New" ClimateGate III email 923489557: UEA's Mike Hulme, April '99: "I'm dubious about forcing climate to be the main driver of environmental change...IPCC might like to have us think climate change is that important, but I don't believe it"

At 17:39 01/04/99 +0100, [Mike Hulme] wrote to UEA's Trevor Davies:

I'm dubious about forcing climate to be the main driver of environmental change. I think this smacks of convenience to us rather than intellectually defendable. IPCC might like to have us think climate change is that important, but I don't believe it. The main driver of environmental change is socio-economic-technological development. Changing climates provide an envelope within which the environment has to adapt to the human drivers of change - in some sectors and regions it is a very loose-fitting envelope and in other it is a little tighter....

Mike Hulme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mike Hulme is Professor of Climate and Culture in the Department of Geography at King's College London. He was formerly professor of Climate Change in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia (UEA). 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