To Raise the Water Level in a Fishpond, by Zhang Huan, 1997. Chromogenic print. © Zhang Huan, courtesy Pace Gallery.

Climate

Volume XII, Number 4 | fall 2019

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Preamble

Paying the Piper

By Lewis H. Lapham

Acquiring an acquaintance with nature when capitalism has put its future at risk.

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Photograph of the flower clock in the Jardin anglais, Geneva, Switzerland, 2012, by Cayambe. Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Out of Time

By Astra Taylor

Listening to the climate’s clock.

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Map

Current Events

Ocean currents and atmospheric winds shape more than trade routes.

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Miscellany

“The movements of the air and water,” wrote French mathematician Joseph Fourier in 1824, “the extent of the oceans, the elevation and form of the surface, the effects of human industry, and all the accidental changes of the earth’s surface modify the temperature of each climate.”

1895 | Stockholm

Ice, Air, Acid, Heat

Svante Arrhenius connects carbon dioxide and climate.More

c. 944 | Al-Fustat

Enter the Dragon

Al-Masudi on what’s left in the beast’s wake.More

1919 | New York City

Made to Order

Meet the Mechanical Weather Man.More

Charts & Graphs

Forecasting the Apocalypse

“Some say the world will end in fire / some say in ice.”—Robert Frost

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Engraving of William Shakespeare from the first folio edition.

Kyle Harper

Welsh clergyman and historian Gerald of Wales.

It is the little causes, long continued, which are considered as bringing about the greatest changes of the earth.

—James Hutton, 1795

Abby Jane Morrell

Abby Jane Morrell & Tripadvisor

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