What is it about?
This article explores the meaning of the idea of "climate", from a cultural and imaginative perspective rather than from a scientific one.
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Why is it important?
Gaining a deeper cultural understanding of the idea of climate is important if we are to understand how different citizens around the world make sense of, and respond to, the challenges of "climate change". The last 25 years of the politics of climate change have shown that a purely scientific reading of climate and its changes fails to connect with, or to motivate, large numbers of people.
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This article is a short summary of many of the ideas I develop at greater length in my new book "Weathered: Cultures of Climate", published by SAGE in 2017.
Mike Hulme
University of Cambridge
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This page is a summary of: Climate and its changes: a cultural appraisal, Geo Geography and Environment, May 2015, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/geo2.5.
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