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glaciers ; "More like winter than summer" ; Dearth and revolution ; The year without a summer ; An Ghorta Mór -- The modern warm period. A warmer greenhouse.

change: considering the case of displacement and migration / Anthony Oliver-Smith -- Apocalypse nicked! Stolen rhetoric in early geoengineering advocacy / Clare Heyward and Steve Rayner -- Complex systems and multiple crises of energy / John Urry -- Entangled futures: anthropology's engagement with global change research / Eduardo S. Brondizio -- pt. 2. Assessing encounters old and new -- Gone with cows and kin? Climate, globalization, and youth alienation in Siberia / Susan A. Crate -- Climate change in Leukerbad and beyond: re-visioning our cultures of energy and environment / Sarah Strauss -- Storm warnings: an anthropological focus on community resilience in the face of climate change in Southern Bangladesh / Timothy J. Finan and Md. Ashiqur Rahman -- Correlating local knowledge with climatic data: Porgeran experiences of climate change in Papua New Guinea / Jerry K. Jacka -- Speaking again of climate change: an analysis of climate change discourses in Northwestern Alaska / Elizabeth Marino and Peter Schweitzer -- Too little and too late: what to do about climate change in the Torres Strait? / Donna Green -- Shifting tides: climate change, migration, and agency in Tuvalu / Heather Lazrus -- The politics of rain: Tanzanian farmers' discourse on climate and political disorder / Michael Sheridan -- Cornish weather and the phenomenology of light: on anthropology and "Seeing" / Tori L. Jennings -- Making sense of climate change: global impacts, local responses, and anthropogenic dilemmas in the Peruvian Andes / Karsten Paerregaard -- Climate change beyond the "Environmental": the Marshallese case / Peter Rudiak-Gould -- "This is not science fiction": Amazonian narratives of climate change / David Rojas -- pt. 3. Refining anthropological actions -- Fostering resilience in a changing sea-ice context: a Grant Maker's perspective / Anne Henshaw -- Is a sustainable consumer culture possible? / Richard Wilk -- "Climate skepticism" inside the Beltway and across the Bay / Shirley J. Fiske -- When adaptation is not enough: between the "Now and then" of community-led resettlement / Kristina Peterson and Julie Koppel Maldonado -- Narwhal hunters, seismic surveys, and the middle ice: monitoring environmental change in Greenland's Melville Bay / Mark Nuttall -- Insuring the rain as climate adaptation in an Ethiopian Agricultural Community / Nicole D. Peterson and Daniel Osgood -- Pedagogy and climate change / Chris Hebdon, Myles Lennon, Francis Ludlow, Amy Zhang, and Michael R. Dove -- Bridging knowledge and action on climate change: institutions, translation, and anthropological engagement / Noor Johnson -- Escaping the double bind: from the management of uncertainty toward integrated climate research / Werner Krauss -- Epilogue: encounters, actions, transformations / Susan A. Crate and Mark Nuttall.

: reading a suicide in India; In the ruins of an enduring fable -- Facing the planetary. Anthropocene time -- Toward an anthropological clearing -- Postscript : the global reveals the planetary : a conversation with Bruno Latour.

Sartore [photographer] ; Forest conservation ; Eyewitness to change: Tim Laman, Daniel Beltrá [photographers] ; Reforestation and agroforestry ; Eyewitness to change: Cristina Mittermeier [photographer] -- Adaptation. Adapting to climate change. Terrestrial biodiversity ; Eyewitness to change: Frans Lanting [photographer] ; Freshwater biodiversity ; Eyewitness to change: Michael Forsberg [photographer] ; The role of oceans ; Eyewitness to change: Paul Nicklen [photographer] ; Human dimensions ; Eyewitness to change: John Stanmeyer [photographer] ; Tipping points ; Eyewitness to change: James Balog [photographer] ; A call to action.

Medieval Warm Period (AD 750-1250) in the Pacific Basin Chapter -- 5. The AD 1300 Event (AD 1250-1350) in the Pacific Basin -- Chapter 6. The Little Ice Age (AD 1350-1800) in the Pacific Basin -- Chapter 7. The AD 1300 Event: an explanatory model for societal response to climate change during the last millennium in the Pacific Basin -- Chapter 8. Recent warming and sea-level rise (since AD 1800) in the Pacific Basin -- Chapter 9. Teleconnections and global climate trends -- Chapter 10. Causes of last-millennium climate change.

justice / Rob Nixon -- 4.Cameo: museums connecting / Lumepa Apelu -- 5.Talking around objects: stories for living with climate change / Jennifer Newell -- 6.Object in view: Jaki-ed mat, Marshall Islands / Kristina Eonemto Stege -- 7.The Pacific in New York: managing objects and cultural heritage partnerships in times of global change / Jacklyn Lacey -- 8.Cameo: Connie Hart's basket / Tom Griffiths -- 9."Peoples who still live": the role of museums in addressing climate change in the Pacific / Peter Rudiak-Gould -- 10.Object in view: taking a bite out of lost knowledge: sharks' teeth, extinction, and the value of preemptive collections / Joshua Drew -- pt. II Reinventing nature and culture -- Contents note continued: 11.Towards an ecological museology: responding to the animal-objects of the Australian Institute of Anatomy collection / Kirsten Wehner -- 12.Object in view: Harry Clarke's high-wheeler bicycle / Daniel Oakman -- 13.Food and water exhibitions as lenses on climate change / Erin Betley -- 14.Object in view: a stump-jump plough: reframing a national icon / George Main -- 15.Telling Torres Strait history through turtle / Leah Lui-Chivizhe -- 16.Four seasons in one day: weather, culture and the museum / Kirstie Ross -- 17.Object in view: Nelson the Newfoundland's dog collar / Martha Sear -- 18.The last snail: loss, hope and care for the future / Thom van Dooren -- 19.Object in view: hiding in plain sight: lessons from the Olinguito / Nancy B. Simmons -- pt. III Focusing on the future -- 20.The reef in time: the prophecy of Charlie Veron's living collections / Iain McCalman -- 21.Food stories for the future / George Main -- Contents note continued: 22.Shaping garden collections for future climates / Sharon Willoughby -- 23.Object in view: a past future for the cucumber / Sharon Willoughby -- 24.The art of the Anthropocene / William L. Fox -- 25.Object in view: the Canary Project: photographs and fossils / Susannah Sayler -- pt. IV Representing change and uncertainty -- 26.Cameo: The vulnerable Volvo / Sverker Sorlin -- 27.Museum awakenings: responses to environmental change at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, 1965--2005 / Anders Houltz -- 28.Rising seas: facts, fictions and aquaria / Anna Aberg -- 29.Object in view: the model of flooded New York / Edmond Mathez -- 30.When the ice breaks: the Arctic in the media / Nina Wormbs -- 31.Displaying the Anthropocene in and beyond museums / Helmuth Trischler -- 32.Dear Matafele Peinem / Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner.

Our climatic inheritance; 8. The future; Appendix; Bibliography; References.

to see the whole picture: how the Tea Party fails to notice the greatest threat to its values -- Polluting the message: how science becomes infected with social meaning -- The jury of our peers: how we follow the people around us -- The power of the mob: how bullies hide in the crowd -- Through a glass darkly: the strange mirror world of climate deniers -- Inside the elephant: why we keep searching for enemies -- The two brains: why we are so poorly evolved to deal with climate change -- Familiar yet unimaginable: why climate change does not feel dangerous -- Uncertain long-term costs: how our cognitive biases line up against climate change -- Them, there, and then: how we push climate change far away -- Costing the earth: why we want to gain the whole world yet lose our lives -- Certain about the uncertainty: how we use uncertainty as a justification for inaction -- Paddling in the pool of worry: how we choose what to ignore -- Don't even talk about it! The invisible force field of climate silence -- The non-perfect non-storm: why we think that climate change is impossibly difficult -- Cockroach tours: how museums struggle to tell the climate story -- Tell me a story: why lies can be so appealing -- Powerful words: how the words we use affect the way we feel -- Communicator trust: why the messenger is more important than the message -- If they don't understand the theory, talk about it over and over and over again: why climate science does not move people -- Protect, ban, save, and stop: how climate change became environmentalist -- Polarization: why polar bears make it harder to accept climate change --. Contents note continued: Turn off your lights or the puppy gets it: how doomsday becomes dullsville -- Bright-siding: the dangers of positive dreams -- Winning the argument: how a scientific discourse turned into a debating slam -- Two billion bystanders: how Live Earth tried and failed to build a movement -- Postcard from Hopenhagen: how climate negotiations keep preparing for the drama yet to come -- Precedents and presidents: how climate policy lost the plot -- Wellhead and tailpipe: why we keep fueling the fire we want to put out -- The black gooey stuff: why oil companies await our permission to go out of business -- Moral imperatives: how we diffuse responsibility for climate change -- What did you do in the great climate war, Daddy? Why we don't really care what our children think -- The power of one: how climate change became your fault -- Degrees of separation: how the climate experts cope with what they know -- Intimations of mortality: why the future goes dark -- From the head to the heart: the phony division between science and religion -- Climate conviction: what the green team can learn from the God squad -- Why we are wired to ignore climate change-- and why we are wired to take action -- In a nutshell: some personal and highly biased ideas for digging our way out of this hole.

-- III. The climate kaleidoscope. Storytelling ; Crisis capitalism ; The church of technology ; Politics of consumption ; History after progress ; Ethics at the end of the world -- IV. The anthropic principle.