UNIT 3 OVERVIEW.
In this imaginary, which is not as future-orientated as the other imaginaries mentioned, anthropogenic climate change is part of a cover-up arranged to promote private rather than public interests. Basically, what we find in fiction applying this imaginary are worlds wherein anthropogenic climate change appears as a very powerful tool of manipulation. This also means that the distinction between science and politics is depicted as blurred. Science transgresses the borders of politics and politics the borders of science, which means that science can no longer be perceived as an apolitical and truthful source to matters of fact. The imaginary has a cultural history that goes back to ancient Greece and the idea that the Gods of Olympus secretly orchestrated and interfered in the lives of ordinary human beings. Later on, the imaginary takes an even stronger appearance in the narrative that every human misfortune is indeed the work of the Devil, an evil puppet master capable of pulling every string.
In this imaginary, which is not as future-orientated as the other imaginaries mentioned, anthropogenic climate change is part of a cover-up arranged to promote private rather than public interests. Basically, what we find in fiction applying this imaginary are worlds wherein anthropogenic climate change appears as a very powerful tool of manipulation. This also means that the distinction between science and politics is depicted as blurred. Science transgresses the borders of politics and politics the borders of science, which means that science can no longer be perceived as an apolitical and truthful source to matters of fact. The imaginary has a cultural history that goes back to ancient Greece and the idea that the Gods of Olympus secretly orchestrated and interfered in the lives of ordinary human beings. Later on, the imaginary takes an even stronger appearance in the narrative that every human misfortune is indeed the work of the Devil, an evil puppet master capable of pulling every string.
FICTION
Film
NONFICTION Podcasts
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Informational Texts
Online Learning and Other Media
- Cook, John. Cranky Uncle vs. Climate Change: How to Understand and Respond to Climate Science Deniers, "Chapter 1: How Did Climate Change Get So Controversial?" Citadel Press Books, 2020. pp. 1-24.
- The Black Gold Tapestry by Sarah Sawatzky, Glenbow Museum in Calgary, Alberta, 2017. CLICK HERE for an interactive "tour" of the tapestry.
Online Learning and Other Media
- The Consensus Project, a peer-reviewed citizen science driven project conducted by volunteers at the Skeptical Science website. The Consensus Project measured the level of consensus in published, peer-reviewed climate research that humans are causing global warming. In the most comprehensive analysis to date, they analyzed 21 years worth of peer-reviewed papers on “global warming” or “global climate change." Among the 12,465 papers, they identified over 4,014 abstracts authored by 10,188 scientists that stated a position on human-caused global warming. Among those 4,014 abstracts, 97.1% endorse the consensus. Among the 10,188 scientists, 98.4% endorse the consensus.
IMAGE GALLERY
Warming stripes for 1850-2018 using the World Meteorological Organization annual global temperature dataset, Ed Hawkins, 2018
A 2018 "tempestry" by Justin Connelly, which is part of the Tempestry Project's display in the Museum of Northwest Art's Surge exhibit in the fall of 2018. This collection contains twenty-two Tempestries for Deception Pass, WA, each one representing one year of high temperature data starting with January at the bottom. This collection ranges from 1950 on the left to 2017 on the right.
VIDEO GALLERY.
"Climategate: How Climate Skeptics Tricked the Public"
BBC Newsnight (2019)
BBC Newsnight (2019)