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  1. 1. Drilling for time: ice cores and the synchronization of temporalities in glaciology, 1935-1978

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för idé- och lärdomshistoria

    Författare :Erik Isberg; [2018]
    Nyckelord :ice cores; Arctic science; temporalities; Environmental humanities; climate modelling; history of science; Willi Dansgaard; Anthropocene; synchronization; temporal regimes; Cultural Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : Since their emergence in the 1950’s, ice cores have ventured from being scientific objects of concern to a limited number of glaciologists to becoming one of the most iconic representations of anthropogenic climate change. This thesis aims to historicize the way in which ice cores became enrolled into climate discourse, particularly emphasizing the production and representation of temporalities of the global climate that the ice cores made possible. LÄS MER