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标题：Burning worlds of cartography: a critical approach to climate cosmograms of the Anthropocene
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作者：Birgit Schneider
期刊名称：Geo: Geography and Environment
电子版ISSN：2054-4049
出版年度：2016
卷号：3
期号：2
页码：n/a-n/a
DOI：10.1002/geo2.27
语种：English
出版社：John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
摘要：Climate science today makes use of a variety of red globes to explore and communicate findings. These transform the iconography which informs this image: the idealised, even mythical vision of the blue, vulnerable and perfect marble is impaired by the application of the colours yellow and red. Since only predictions that employ a lot of red seem to exist, spectators are confronted with the message that the future Earth that might turn out as envisaged here is undesirable. Here intuitively powerful narrations of the end of the world may connect. By employing methods of art history and visual analysis, and building on examples from current Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports and future scenario maps, this article explores how burning world images bear – intentionally or not – elements of horror and shock. My question explored here is as follows: should ‘burning world’ images be understood as a new and powerful cosmology?
关键词：cartography;visualisation;climate change;whole Earth images