Adenrele Awotona
Ashgate
Hardback
364
1999
Climate change emerged as a significant area of scientific concern in the late 1970s, yet it is only in the last few years, with the release of Al Gore?»s film An Inconvenient Truth in 2006, in particular, that it has had a high media profile. Why has climate change taken so long to be communicated beyond the scientific community, and what can this historical silence tell us about the contemporary relationship between the environment, science, media and culture?