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With Stephen Burt (Reading), Tim Burt (Durham), and Fabien Locher (EHESS/CNRS)
Societies have been debating climate change for a long time. Measuring the phenomenon has required scientific instruments to produce historical data on the weather, as did the Radcliffe Meteorological Station in Oxford for 250 years, and scientists to analyse it. It also required observers to grasp the social, economic and political consequences of these changes in the weather. How do historians recount the hopes and fears of societies that, facing the vagaries of the sky, think about and anticipate climate change? How do meteorologists, geographers and historians encounter to account for these changes in the weather? At the time of COP 26, it is time to reflect on the theoretical and practical tools that have enabled us to conceive and perceive climate change over the long term.
