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The Global Warming That Did Not Happen: Historicizing Glaciology and Climate Change

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Nature’s End

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The iconography of climate change has for some time used glaciers as a main symbol and indicator. Glaciers grow or melt and they therefore represent a change in climate, although the connections are much more complex than the visual culture of the media sometimes suggests. In this chapter we will focus on glaciers during a period when they had not yet been established as indicators of climate change and environmental degradation. This is a history of field experiences in the 20th century, but also of ambitions to introduce glaciers and glaciology as an item on the agenda of science politics and polar diplomacy.

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  1. Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

    Sverker Sörlin (Professor of Environmental History) (Professor of Environmental History)

  2. University of East Anglia, UK

    Paul Warde (Reader in Early Modern History) (Reader in Early Modern History)

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Sörlin, S. (2009). The Global Warming That Did Not Happen: Historicizing Glaciology and Climate Change. In: Sörlin, S., Warde, P. (eds) Nature’s End. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230245099_5

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