FeaturesDialogues: climate care

XXIX.1 January - February 2022
Page: 44
Digital Citation

Reimagining environmental data


Authors:
Robert Soden

When we think about climate change, so often we think with and through data. Statistics such as parts per million of atmospheric CO2, thresholds of global average temperature, and annual tons of greenhouse gas emissions form our understanding of potential futures. Numbers ranging from meters of sea-level rise, to counts of so-called climate migrants forced to leave their home cities or countries thanks to heat and drought, to the year-over-year records being set by tropical storm damages shape our understanding of climate change's impacts. Even efforts to communicate about climate science through narrative or art often rely heavily on…




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