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LOCATION:The Heyman Center\, Second Floor Common Room
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SUMMARY:Climate in Motion: Science\, Empire\, and the Problem of Scale
DESCRIPTION:Today\, predicting the impact of human activities on the eart
 h’s climate hinges on tracking interactions among phenomen
 a of radically different dimensions\, from the molecular to t
 he planetary. Climate in Motion shows that this multiscala
 r\, multicausal framework emerged well before computers and s
 atellites. Extending the history of modern climate science b
 ack into the nineteenth century\, Deborah R. Coen uncovers it
 s roots in the politics of empire-building in central and ea
 stern Europe. She argues that essential elements of the mode
 rn understanding of climate arose as a means of thinking acr
 oss scales in a state—the multinational Habsburg Monarchy\,
  a patchwork of medieval kingdoms and modern laws—where su
 ch thinking was a political imperative. Led by Julius Hann i
 n Vienna\, Habsburg scientists were the first to investigate 
 precisely how local winds and storms might be related to the
  general circulation of the earth’s atmosphere as a whole.
  Linking Habsburg climatology to the political and artistic 
 experiments of late imperial Austria\, Coen grounds the seemi
 ngly esoteric science of the atmosphere in the everyday expe
 riences of an earlier era of globalization. Climate in Moti
 on presents the history of modern climate science as a hist
 ory of “scaling”—that is\, the embodied work of moving 
 between different frameworks for measuring the world. In thi
 s way\, it offers a critical historical perspective on the co
 ncepts of scale that structure thinking about the climate cr
 isis today and the range of possibilities for responding to 
 it.
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