TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schneider, Birgit
A1  - Walsh, Lynda
T1  - The politics of zoom
BT  - Problems with downscaling climate visualizations
JF  - Geo: Geography and Environment
N2  - Following the mandate in the Paris Agreement for signatories to provide “climate services” to their constituents, “downscaled” climate visualizations are proliferating. But the process of downscaling climate visualizations does not neutralize the political problems with their synoptic global sources—namely, their failure to empower communities to take action and their replication of neoliberal paradigms of globalization. In this study we examine these problems as they apply to interactive climate‐visualization platforms, which allow their users to localize global climate information to support local political action. By scrutinizing the political implications of the “zoom” tool from the perspective of media studies and rhetoric, we add to perspectives of cultural cartography on the issue of scaling from our fields. Namely, we break down the cinematic trope of “zooming” to reveal how it imports the political problems of synopticism to the level of individual communities. As a potential antidote to the politics of zoom, we recommend a downscaling strategy of connectivity, which associates rather than reduces situated views of climate to global ones.
KW  - climate change
KW  - climate services
KW  - climate visualization
KW  - connectivity
KW  - downscaling
KW  - spherical
KW  - synopticism
KW  - zoom
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1002/geo2.70
SN  - 2054-4049
VL  - 6
IS  - 1
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
CY  - Hoboken
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Auer, Cornelia
A1  - Kriegler, Elmar
A1  - Carlsen, Henrik
A1  - Kok, Kasper
A1  - Pedde, Simona
A1  - Krey, Volker
A1  - Müller, Boris
T1  - Climate change scenario services
BT  - from science to facilitating action
JF  - One earth
N2  - The goal of limiting global warming to well below 2°C as set out in the Paris Agreement calls for a strategic assessment of societal pathways and policy strategies. Besides policy makers, new powerful actors from the private sector, including finance, have stepped up to engage in forward-looking assessments of a Paris-compliant and climate-resilient future. Climate change scenarios have addressed this demand by providing scientific insights on the possible pathways ahead to limit warming in line with the Paris climate goal. Despite the increased interest, the potential of climate change scenarios has not been fully unleashed, mostly due to a lack of an intermediary service that provides guidance and access to climate change scenarios. This perspective presents the concept of a climate change scenario service, its components, and a prototypical implementation to overcome this shortcoming aiming to make scenarios accessible to a broader audience of societal actors and decision makers.
KW  - climate change scenarios
KW  - climate change scenario services
KW  - climate services
KW  - co-production
KW  - visualization
KW  - capacity building
KW  - mitigation scenarios
KW  - adaptation scenarios
KW  - impact projections
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2021.07.015
SN  - 2590-3322
VL  - 4
IS  - 8
SP  - 1074
EP  - 1082
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -