Media and the Politics of Arctic Climate Change

'We are all on thin ice when it comes to the Arctic and global climate change. This smart, savvy volume edited by Swedish scholars, Miyase Christensen, Annika E. Nilsson and Nina Wormbs, is essential reading for everyone interested in the future of the planet and the role ice plays in shaping our material reality and social imaginary.' - James Rodger Fleming, Colby College, Maine, USA 'The topic of the study is a multi-focused analysis of a particular event, the 2007 Arctic sea ice minimum and its representation by the media, polar scientists, indigenous residents, and the environmental community. It is a fascinating story of a geophysical phenomenon (an ice low of record scale) that became a media-scripted event tooled to drive the message of global warming to various constituencies, including policy makers, industrial and tourist managers, and environmentalists.' - ACS Newsletter

Dag Avango, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Miyase Christensen, Stockholm University, Sweden Ralf Dscher, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Sweden Per Hgselius, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Henry Huntington, Arctic Science Director for the Pew Charitable Trusts, USA Julia Lajus, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia Annika E. Nilsson, Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden Sverker Srlin, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Nina Wormbs, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

List of illustrations List of maps List of tables Notes on the contributors Preface Acknowledgements 1. Globalization, Climate Change and the Media: An Introduction; Miyase Christensen, Annika E. Nilsson and Nina Wormbs 2. Arctic Climate Change and the Media: The News Story That Was; Miyase Christensen 3. Eyes on the ice: Satellite remote sensing and the narratives of visualized data; Nina Wormbs 4. An Ice Free Arctic Sea?: The Science of Sea Ice and Its Interests; Sverker Sorlin and Julia Lajus 5. Signals from a Noisy Region; Annika E. Nilsson and Ralf Doscher 6. A Question of Scale: Local versus Pan-Arctic Impacts from Sea Ice Change; Henry P. Huntington 7. Under the Ice: Exploring the Arctic's Energy Resources, 1898-1985; Dag Avango and Per Hogselius 8. Changing Arctic - Changing World; Miyase Christensen, Annika E. Nilsson and Nina Wormbs References