Ideas of Climate
This idea's cultural histories and geographies are distinctive worldwide, yet it impacts everyone.
What is climate change?
This act is the invasion and occupation of lands for the purpose of settlement or to acquire resources.
What is colonialism?
This both has influenced all cultures over time and is also sometimes reflected in a culture’s art and music.
What is the energy system?
This era, when humans started burning fossil fuels in large quantities, was the start of rising CO2 emissions.
What was the Industrial Era?
A graph which illustrates the changes in atmospheric CO2 over time.
What is the Keeling Curve?
These two variables specific to a geographical location result in an ongoing rhythmic exchange between earth and sky, organisms and their environment.
What is climate and weather?
This legal principle maintained that European nations could acquire and control lands that they discovered.
What is the Doctrine of Discovery?
This made transportation easier and caused mass relocation from the farms to the cities.
What was the energy transition (to coal or to fossil fuels)?
Some people believe that we have entered this new epoch where humans are affecting conditions on Earth.
What is the Anthropocene?
We use this scientific unit to measure the atmospheric CO2 concentration.
What is ppm/ parts per million?
International students from warmer countries find their first Canadian winter challenging. This phenomenon is based on their sense of climate developing when they are in a new geographical location.
What is acclimatization?
This expression is used in land acknowledgment to refer to the amount of time Indigenous nations have been caretakers on the land that extends beyond our memory, record or tradition.
What is time immemorial?
Large amounts of this invisible force will be used in Taylor Swift’s performance tonight.
What is carboniferous or fossil fuel energy?
A problematic assumption of capitalism.
What is unlimited growth?
This 1992 conference launched the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
What was the Rio Earth Summit (United Nations Conference on Environment and Development)?
This type of imagination is central to people's ideas about climate and sense of place.
What is geographical imagination?
Ghosh describes this immense difference between the Global North and the Global South in their understandings of climate change.
What is the Perception Gap?
This part of the world has caused much more than its fair share of GHG emissions from burning fossil fuels.
What is the Global North?
This term is used to describe exceeding safe planetary limits.
What is overshoot?
This movie by former Vice President and presidential candidate Al Gore introduced the hockey stick graph in 2006.
What is “An Inconvenient Truth”?
This controversial concept of climate, introduced by Global North writers, creates a divide between people from different parts of the world and the relationship between the climate they live in and how they maintain their livelihood.
What is climate determinism?
This Marxist concept refers to a thing that becomes produced for exchange rather than immediate use in a capitalist system.
What is a commodity?
This term, meaning resistance to change, makes it hard to move away from fossil fuels.
What is inertia?
When a small change triggers a big and irreversible change.
What is a tipping point?
This treaty on climate change made at COP21 in 2015 was adopted by 196 countries.
What is the Paris Agreement?