Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Image Politics of Climate Change: Introduction 9
4. Chapter 1. The Epistemic Value of Visualization in Climate Sciences
5. The Creation of Global Imaginaries: The Antarctic Ozone Hole and the Isoline Tradition in the Atmospheric Sciences 29
6. Images for Data Analysis: The Role of Visualization in Climate Research Processes 55
7. Chapter 2. Communicating Results: The Status of Climate Expert Graphs in IPCC Reports
8. “Tricks,” Hockey Sticks, and the Myth of Natural Inscription: How the Visual Rhetoric of Climate gate Conflated Climate with Character 81
9. The Color of Risk: Expert Judgment and Diagrammatic Reasoning in the IPCC’s ‘Burning Embers’ 105
10. Chapter 3. Images of Climate Change in the Press and on the Web
11. Between Risk, Beauty and the Sublime: The Visualization of Climate Change in Media Coverage during COP 15 in Copenhagen 2009 127
12. Twist and Shout: Images and Graphs in Skeptical Climate Media 153
13. Towards an Interactive Visual Understanding of Climate Change Findings on the Net: Promises and Challenges 187
14. Color Plates 211
15. Chapter 4. From Vision to Action? Making the Invisible Imaginable through Art and Photography
16. Picturing the Clima(c)tic: Greenpeace and the Representational Politics of Climate Change Communication 225
17. The Uncanny Polar Bear: Activists Visually Attack an Overly Emotionalized Image Clone 249
18. How Photography Matters: On Producing Meaning in Photobooks on Climate Change 273
19. The Pensive Photograph as Agent: What Can Non–Illustrative Images Do to Galvanize Public Support for Climate Change Action? 299
20. Chapter 5. Images of Climate Control
21. Picturing the State of the Nation’s Environment: Early Aerial Photography in the United States from the 1930s to the late 1960s 325
22. Picturing Climate Control: Visualizing the Unimaginable 345
23. Images of Feasibility: On the Viscourse of Climate Engineering 363
24. Contributing Authors 383