This collaborative course is intended to help folks learn climate science using climate fiction. Fiction here is defined broadly. It might be a science fiction novel, architecture, [a false report], or [a piece of music]. This course is exploratory. There is no one path to it. Many pages link to others, internally and externally. You are intended to meander. This class is for you. I’m hoping you will help grow this garden, adding your own experiences and favorite (or most informative) fictions to this budding network of climate learning.
The image below and the images on future pages have links mapped to various parts of the image. Whenever you find an image, you may find links that lead you to readings, images, lessons, notes, or general topics. Many links are embedded in the text as well. Enjoy exploring!
In case you ever feel lost, or want to jump, here’s a map. All the files are Github if you prefer seeing them all at together!
This project began to grow in Shannon Mattern’s Redesigning the Academy seminar at the New School. Here is some more background on the goals of & inspirations for this course and here is a model of what I’m hoping this website might become.
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Welcome to the Greenhouse
Earth’s atmosphere works like a greenhouse, trapping heat from the sun to turn our planet into the brown-green-blue-white Earth it...
Dorothy Wordsworth's Journals
Dorothy Wordsworth, a writer and poet, left behind a multitude of journals with lengthy descriptions of daily weather and activities....
Inclusion Statement
The climate crisis is global and beyond human. Readings, artwork, and activities will draw from global experiences, bodies of literatures,...
Growing CCCF with your input
This course is intended to be explored as you might explore a natural space – moving through, circling back, orienting...
What is a planet?
The International Astronomical Union defines a planet as a celestial body that:
A primer on volcanos
Volcanos are fiery portals to the inner workings of the earth. Combinations of heat, pressure, and chemical volatility can bring...
Glaciers
Glaciers are bodies of ice large enough to flow under their own weight. They tend to form at high elevations...
Ice Ages
Ice ages occur periodically due to a combination of continental location, atmospheric concentration of gasses, and solar input.
Milankovitch Cycles
Milankovitch Cycles are natural variations in the earth’s orbit and tilt which play major a role in longterm climate, determining...
Weather
Weather is the daily manifestation of complex relationships between land, atmosphere, and the hydrologic cycle. Varying air mass temperatures, densities,...
Clouds
“The night I stayed too late I was hunched on the fog staring spellbound at spreading, reflecting stains of lilac...