ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the climatic changes that Porgerans describe as having occurred over the past seventy years and show that Porgerans interpret climate change along several different dimensions moral, agricultural, environmental, and cosmological. It indicates that mitigating climate change vulnerabilities in some communities will require a number of cultural and environmental realms that Northern governments and policy makers have not considered. It also explores in more detail what exactly Porgerans mean when they talk about climate. Pielke and Bravo de Guenni argue that the dominant model in climate science, like that used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is overly concerned with modeling future scenarios of climate change without modeling the more immediate human vulnerabilities to climate change. The task for anthropologists in writing about climate change will be to trace some of these less-obvious dynamics of climate change.
