ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the rhetorical use of data displays in some of the environmental discourses, as well as a few new multimedia sites of discourse. It utilizes to fill the gap in the greater literature about environmental rhetoric. The chapter focuses on how visual rhetoric is used within environmental rhetoric, and how the topoi about science are used and represented within visual elements. It shows how these scientific commonplaces can be traced through visual as well as textual arguments. It traces how the visuals are transformed in different contexts, in the same way the commonplaces. The chapter also utilizes the Global Warming Art wiki as an example of multimedia, decentralizing the production of images and making them available to be repurposed in the same way narrative commonplaces are. It illustrates how the scientific commonplaces are expressed visually in conjunction with textual components and how those expressions are shaped by social relations.
