Scientific research on climate change has given rise to a variety of images picturing climate
change. These range from colorful expert graphics model visualizations photographs of extreme
weather events like floods droughts or melting ice symbols like polar bears to animated and
interactive visualizations. Climate change graphics have not only increased knowledge about the
subject they have begun to influence popular awareness of global weather events. The status of
climate pictures today is particularly crucial as global climate change as a long-term process
cannot be seen. When images are widely distributed they are able to shape how the world is
thought about and seen. It is this implicit basic assumption of the power of images to
influence reality that this book addresses: today's images might become the blueprint for
tomorrow's realities. »Image Politics of Climate Change« combines a wide interdisciplinary
range of perspectives and questions treated here in sixteen interdisciplinary case studies.
The author's specializations include both visual practice and theory: in the fields of climate
sciences computer graphics art curating art history and visual studies communication and
cultural science environmental and science & technology studies. The close interlinking of
these viewpoints promotes in-depth insights into issues of production and analysis of climate
visualization.
