Climate Science: A culture of predictions
Type
digital resource
Date Issued
2019
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Abstract
A web exhibition on history of climate modelling
This website examines the emergence and predominance of climate modelling as a culture of prediction. It shows that the interests in climate and the research directions to investigate climate have been diverse and changed enormously during the twentieth century.
From the 1970s on, climate modeling has played a major role in forging a scientific consensus about climatic change. One of its most important results have been climate projections. Based on simulations with complex Earth System Models such projections have become an iconic product of this thriving science. However, scientific consensus tends to hide the conflicts, complex negotiations and tangible interests behind the consensus itself. This exhibition attempts to show fundamental and contested changes in climate science by taking a look at a few crucial representatives of climate science and many relevant documents.
This website examines the emergence and predominance of climate modelling as a culture of prediction. It shows that the interests in climate and the research directions to investigate climate have been diverse and changed enormously during the twentieth century.
From the 1970s on, climate modeling has played a major role in forging a scientific consensus about climatic change. One of its most important results have been climate projections. Based on simulations with complex Earth System Models such projections have become an iconic product of this thriving science. However, scientific consensus tends to hide the conflicts, complex negotiations and tangible interests behind the consensus itself. This exhibition attempts to show fundamental and contested changes in climate science by taking a look at a few crucial representatives of climate science and many relevant documents.
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