Beschreibung
In this paper I explore the temporalities and futurities of climate change. The chapter focuses ethnographically on the activities of a university climate change adaptation research project and its attempt to use climate modeling techniques to imagine and engage the future effects of climate change on the city of Manchester, UK. The chapter delves into the operations through which climate models are scaled in order to trace how this scaling of climate produces a way of thinking that generates a particular frame for understanding the future. Observing how this climatological description of the future is put into circulation I suggest that the version of the future implied by climate models exists in tension with other orientations towards the future that are figured in other very different kinds of objects. The challenge of 'thinking like a climate' from the vantage point of a particular place, allows us to see how climate science becomes caught in a tension between a probabilistic understanding of the future and other ways of evidencing and engaging with a city yet to come. (Speaker's abstract)