Deborah R. Coen (2018): Climate in Motion, Science, Empire, and the Problem of Scale, University of Chicago Press: Chicago.
Today, predicting the impact of human activities on the earth’s climate hinges on tracking interactions among phenomena of radically different dimensions, from the molecular to the planetary. Climate in Motion shows that this multiscalar, multicausal framework emerged well before computers and satellites. Extending the history of modern climate science back into the nineteenth century, Deborah… Read More Deborah R. Coen (2018): Climate in Motion, Science, Empire, and the Problem of Scale, University of Chicago Press: Chicago.