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PublicationSven Hedin and the invention of climate change(Sällskapet för studier av Ryssland, Central-och Östeuropa samt Centralasien, 2008-11)In a bestseller that in 2003 entered the mainstream literature on global warming, Spencer Weart, a professor of physics history at Harvard, delivered a definitive account of the history of climate studies. Reviews of his popular book, The Discovery of Global Warming, have however been mixed. Reviewers, especially if they were Europeans and meteorologists, noted that Professor Spencer Weart often forgot to credit non-American scientists. As far as I am concerned, his book overlooked the significance of several areas: the contributions of field cartographers, of maps as tools for interdisciplinary communication, of the collecting of evidence of climate change either in geological ages or historical times, and of the topographical survey campaigns that, to allow for meaningful comparisons, were led at a sub-continental scale in the US Southwest, the Sahara, the Middle East, and Central Asia. Geographers had indeed begun probing new theories on climate change at the turn of the 20th century.Type: journal articleJournal: OestbulletinenVolume: 12Issue: 8