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You have Mike Hulme nailed.

For those who want to dig a little deeper into this guy's thinking I suggest the following post at WhatsUpWithThat.com where Hulme makes the apparently reasonable suggestion that it is time to retire the IPPC:

UEA Climate Scientist: “possible that…I.P.C.C. has run its course”

Browse down to the comments and read the ones by "Jim" that are punctuated by a series of "WOWs". Here are Jim's comments:

Jim (13:41:10) :

Are we going to trust Hume to lead the charge for change???

From Luboš Motl’s Blog:

“Hulme tells us that if the scientists are going to be listened to in the future, they must “recognize the social limits of their truth seeking” – WOW. ;-) They must thus “trade truth for influence” – WOW. He also says that the “climate change is too important to be left to scientists” – WOW – “least of all the normal ones” – WOW. Hulme promotes the idea that the climate science should become a “post-normal science” – WOW. He says that the “danger” of the “normal science” is that it assumes that the truth is found before the policies are created – WOW.

In the post-normal science that he recommends, science is ready to change “as it rubs against society” – WOW – and the disputes should focus on sociological issues such as funding, personal evaluations, and the format of presentations – WOW. In order to make progress with the climate change, we must “take science off center stage” – WOW. Hulme correctly says that an honest scientist can’t answer questions like “what level of CO2 is too much” because the answer depends on a value judgment which is not a part of science but the only reason why he says so is that he wants to urge scientists to become “post-normal scientists” who claim to be able to answer such questions – WOW.

If I summarize it, he wants to destroy the difference between science and politics completely. I just find it rather breathtaking. This is not a generic crank from Real Climate or Not Even Wrong. This is officially a director of an institute that pretends to be a scientific institute whom we have praised for certain things.”