Polarized climates: the distinctive histories of climate change and politics in the Arctic and Antarctica since the beginning of the Cold War
Abstract This paper suggests that the Polar Regions are excellent places for thinking about historical interactions between climate change, science, and politics from the beginning of the Cold War up to the present. Since the second half of the 1940s, science has played a central role in contesting...
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crwiley:10.1002/wcc.161 2024-06-02T07:57:32+00:00 Polarized climates: the distinctive histories of climate change and politics in the Arctic and Antarctica since the beginning of the Cold War Luedtke, Brandon Howkins, Adrian 2012 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/wcc.161 https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fwcc.161 https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/wcc.161 en eng Wiley http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor WIREs Climate Change volume 3, issue 2, page 145-159 ISSN 1757-7780 1757-7799 journal-article 2012 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.161 2024-05-03T11:46:01Z Abstract This paper suggests that the Polar Regions are excellent places for thinking about historical interactions between climate change, science, and politics from the beginning of the Cold War up to the present. Since the second half of the 1940s, science has played a central role in contesting claims to political authority in both the Arctic and the Antarctic. Research conducted in the Polar Regions has made a major contribution to the science of climate change on a global scale, and research agendas have been closely connected in the two regions. Viewed from a comparative perspective, however, the historical experiences of global warming in the Arctic and Antarctica have been quite different. Climate research has suggested that warming is generally happening faster over much of the Arctic than the Antarctic. In addition, the recent histories of the two regions show that climate change in the Arctic is destabilizing politics there, whereas in Antarctica climate change is helping to reinforce the existing political structures framed by the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS). A comparative approach to the history of climate change in the Polar Regions helps to demonstrate that science, politics, and environmental change have each played important roles without making any single factor deterministic. WIREs Clim Change 2012, 3:145–159. doi: 10.1002/wcc.161 This article is categorized under: Climate, History, Society, Culture > World Historical Perspectives Trans‐Disciplinary Perspectives > Regional Reviews Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica Arctic Climate change Global warming Wiley Online Library Antarctic Arctic The Antarctic Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 3 2 145 159 |
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Abstract This paper suggests that the Polar Regions are excellent places for thinking about historical interactions between climate change, science, and politics from the beginning of the Cold War up to the present. Since the second half of the 1940s, science has played a central role in contesting claims to political authority in both the Arctic and the Antarctic. Research conducted in the Polar Regions has made a major contribution to the science of climate change on a global scale, and research agendas have been closely connected in the two regions. Viewed from a comparative perspective, however, the historical experiences of global warming in the Arctic and Antarctica have been quite different. Climate research has suggested that warming is generally happening faster over much of the Arctic than the Antarctic. In addition, the recent histories of the two regions show that climate change in the Arctic is destabilizing politics there, whereas in Antarctica climate change is helping to reinforce the existing political structures framed by the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS). A comparative approach to the history of climate change in the Polar Regions helps to demonstrate that science, politics, and environmental change have each played important roles without making any single factor deterministic. WIREs Clim Change 2012, 3:145–159. doi: 10.1002/wcc.161 This article is categorized under: Climate, History, Society, Culture > World Historical Perspectives Trans‐Disciplinary Perspectives > Regional Reviews |
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Polarized climates: the distinctive histories of climate change and politics in the Arctic and Antarctica since the beginning of the Cold War |
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Polarized climates: the distinctive histories of climate change and politics in the Arctic and Antarctica since the beginning of the Cold War |
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Polarized climates: the distinctive histories of climate change and politics in the Arctic and Antarctica since the beginning of the Cold War |
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Polarized climates: the distinctive histories of climate change and politics in the Arctic and Antarctica since the beginning of the Cold War |
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polarized climates: the distinctive histories of climate change and politics in the arctic and antarctica since the beginning of the cold war |
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