ABSTRACT
Mediating Climate Change has explored the problems climate change has posed for knowledge, communication and action. Such conceptions have been historically reinforced through mainstream environmentalism and mediated communication, which have conversely served to present humans as separate and disconnected from the environment, through the prioritisation of a visual aesthetics which subscribes to a visible present/past. It found that climate change is variously framed through appeals to discourses of justice, faith, scientific certainty, ethics, emotion and morality to engage people on climate change and promote positive action. At the same time, discourses of scientific uncertainty, neoliberalism, (ir) rationality, individualism and anti-environmentalism have been used to promote inaction. In doing so, it needs to explain the temporal, invisible and incremental nature of climate change, as well as the uncertainties of climate science in relation to its magnitude, rapidity of change and geographical specificity, as a basis for action in the present.
