摘要：This paper argues that photographs of melting glaciers engender a representational problem in the communication of climate change as they depict its already seen effects. Given the dominance of the photograph within Greenpeace campaigns, the paper explores this representational problem by analysing Greenpeace climate change campaign literature since 1994. Identifying five representational phases, it shows how a pictorial language of climate change was being created over the decade. Understood retrospectively however, this visualisation calls attention to the problems of communicating temporal (long term) and unseen environmental issues through a medium of representation which privileges the ‘here and now’.
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