To Raise the Water Level in a Fishpond, by Zhang Huan, 1997. Chromogenic print. © Zhang Huan, courtesy Pace Gallery.

Climate

Volume XII, Number 4 | fall 2019

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Ocean currents and atmospheric winds shape more than trade routes.

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Miscellany

“There is a physical basis for all meteorological phenomena,” wrote the founder of the National Weather Service in 1901. “There are laws of mechanics and heat that apply to the atmosphere, and as fast as we acquire the ability to discover these and reason out their consequences, we shall perceive that law and order prevail in all the complex phenomena of the weather and the climate.”

The earth is beautiful and bright and kindly, but that is not all. The earth is also terrible and dark and cruel.

—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1970
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