Climate scientist Mike Hulm notes IPCC has "run its course"

As reported at Watts Up With That, Mike Hulme, a climate scientist at the University of East Anglia and author of “Why We Disagree About Climate Change,” has weighed on the significance of the leaked files and emails with these comments:

"...[The upcoming UN climate conference in Copenhagen] is about raw politics, not about the politics of science. [...] It is possible that climate science has become too partisan, too centralized. The tribalism that some of the leaked emails display is something more usually associated with social organization within primitive cultures; it is not attractive when we find it at work inside science. It is also possible that the institutional innovation that has been the I.P.C.C. has run its course. Yes, there will be an AR5 but for what purpose? The I.P.C.C. itself, through its structural tendency to politicize climate change science, has perhaps helped to foster a more authoritarian and exclusive form of knowledge production"

In November 2009, Hulme was listed as “the 10th most cited author in the world in the field of climate change, between 1999 and 2009.