Image Politics of Climate Change: Visualizations, Imaginations, Documentations

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Scientific research on climate change has given rise to a variety of images which often make the invisible visible. They influence political processes but also the general perception of global weather events. As its subject the book takes the visual aspect of the climate discourse, treated here in sixteen interdisciplinary case studies. At its heart are images which depict the climate and climate change in very different ways - landscape photography, press photos, maps and diagrams used in climate science and climate skeptical media, but also artworks and the visual strategies of environmental activism. By this, the book gives insights into the crucial roles images play in shaping climate change communication. Cover Image Politics of Climate Change Table of Contents Image Politics of Climate Change: lntroduction CHAPTER 1 THE EPISTEMIC VALUE OF VISUALIZATION IN CLIMATE SeiENCES The Creation of Global lmaginaries: The Antarctic Ozone Hole and the lsoline Tradition in the Atmospheric Seiences Images for Data Analysis: The Role of Visualization in Climate Research Processes CHAPTER 2 COMMUNICATING RESUL TS: THE STATUS OF CLIMATE EXPERT GRAPHS IN IPCC REPORTS "Tricks," Hockey Sticks, and the Myth of Natural lnscription: How the Visual Rhetoric of Climategate Conflated Climate with Character The Color of Risk: Expert Judgment and Diagrammatic Reasoning in the IPCC's 'Burning Embers' CHAPTER 3 IMAGES OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE PRESS AND ON THE WEB Between Risk, Beauty and the Sublime: The Visualization of Climate Change in Media Coverage during COP 15 in Copenhagen 2009 Twist and Shout: Images and Graphs in Skeptical Climate Media Towards an lnteractive Visual Understanding of Climate Change Findings on the Net: Promises and Challenges Color Plates CHAPTER 4 FROM VISION TO ACTION? MAKING THEINVISIBLE IMAGINABLE THROUGH ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY Picturing the Clima(c)tic: Greenpeace and the Representational Politics of Climate Change Communication The Uncanny Polar Bear: Activists Visually Attack an Overly Emotionalized Image Clone How Photography Matters: On Producing Meaning in Photobooks on Climate Change The Pensive Photograph as Agent: What Can Non-lilustrative Images Do to Galvanize Public Support for Climate Change Action? CHAPTER 5 IMAGES OF CLIMATE CONTROL Picturing the State of the Nation's Environment: Early Aerial Photography in the United States from the 1930s to the late 1960s Picturing Climate Control: Visualizing the Unimaginable Images of Feasibility: On the Viscourse of Climate Engineering Authors