ABSTRACT
This chapter studies practices of representing climate change and its impact in the Arctic. The first part comprises a short theoretical discussion on globalization focusing on the relationships between space, time and environment. This is followed by a short historical review of climate discourses since the early 19th century. Next, the spatiality and temporality of representations of Arctic climate change in scientific and political discourses are discussed. The chapter suggests that in many of these discourses the temporal dimension of the representation is frozen. One can see the past dominate the current scientific discourses. The future of climate policy on the national, international and regional levels is constrained and limited by that which is possible at the present time. Possible future options remain unavailable. The frozen temporal aspects of current Arctic climate discourse in science and politics constitute a dilemma, since climate change and its impact on the region are above all a problem of the future.
