Climate change temporalities : explorations in vernacular, popular, and scientific discourse / edited by Kyrre Kverndokk, Marit Ruge Bjærke and Anne Eriksen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Climate Change Temporalities: Narratives, Genres, and Tropes, Kyrre Kverndokk and Anne Eriksen Part 1: Vernacular Notions of Climate Change Temporality 2. ‘Where is global warming when you need it?’: The Role of Immediacy in Vernacular Constructions of Climate Change, Diane E. Goldstein 3. The Great Re-Skilling: Understandings of Generation, Tradition, and Nostalgia in Everyday-Life Climate Activism, Lone Ree Milkær 4. In the Shadow of Apocalyptic Futures: Climate Change as a Cultural Trope in Vernacular Discourse, Camilla Asplund Ingemark Part 2: Mediating Climate Change Temporality 5. The Extreme Summer of 2018: Norwegian Weather News and the Politics of Weatherlore, Kyrre Kverndokk 6. The Prophetic Tone in True Detective: Sensing the Time of the Future Climate Disaster, Isak Winkel Holm 7. Advocating Equilibrium: On Climate Change at Public Aquariums, Lars Kaijser Part 3: Cultural Histories of Climate Change Temporality 8. The Sixth Extinction: Naming Time in a New Way, Marit Ruge Bjærke 9. Smoke, Smells, and Seaweeds in Eighteenth-Century Norway, Anne Eriksen 10. Origin Myths from the Cultural Historical Archive of the Anthropocene: Vico, Burnet, and the Time of the Deluge, John Ødemark Part 4: Conclusion 11. Living the Climate Change, Marit Ruge Bjærke.

"Climate Change Temporalities explores how the relationship between the past, present and future is articulated in different climate change discourses. How are future consequences of greenhouse gas emissions made understandable in the present? How are scientists, the media and the public dealing with the temporalities of climate change? These are some of the questions the book sets out to answer. Although what first springs to mind when we think about climate change are emissions, draughts, floods, and melting icebergs, climate change is also about time and timescales, pace and acceleration: While climate scientists incorporate lessons from the geological past in models of future climate, politicians are coping with questions of how to reduce present emissions and make future societies resilient. And all the while environmentalists are calling for immediate action. In this book, the contributors address climate change temporality by exploring the multiple temporalities present in texts on climate change from a range of different genres. The material studied ranges from scientific articles to newspaper debates and self-presentations from climate activists. Climate Change Temporalities will be of great interest to students and scholars of humanistic climate change research, environmental humanities, studies of temporality and historicity, cultural studies, cultural history and popular culture"--