Climate change temporalities : explorations in vernacular, popular, and scientific discourse / Kyrre Kverndokk, Marit Ruge BjÃ{u2AE5} and Anne Eriksen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

'Climate Change Temporalities explores how the relationship between the past, present and future is articulated in different climate change discourses. How are future consequences of greenhouse gas emissions made understandable in the present? How are scientists, the media and the public dealing with the temporalities of climate change? These are some of the questions the book sets out to answer. Although what first springs to mind when we think about climate change are emissions, draughts, floods, and melting icebergs, climate change is also about time and timescales, pace and acceleration: While climate scientists incorporate lessons from the geological past in models of future climate, politicians are coping with questions of how to reduce present emissions and make future societies resilient. And all the while environmentalists are calling for immediate action. In this book, the contributors address climate change temporality by exploring the multiple temporalities present in texts on climate change from a range of different genres. The material studied ranges from scientific articles to newspaper debates and self-presentations from climate activists. Climate Change Temporalities will be of great interest to students and scholars of humanistic climate change research, environmental humanities, studies of temporality and historicity, cultural studies, cultural history and popular culture'-- Provided by publisher.