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Voices In Time

538 | Ravenna

Weather Vane

Cassiodorus looks up.More

Voices In Time

2019 | London

Barometer Reading

Katharine Viner updates the style guide.More

Voices In Time

2015 | Washington, DC

Counter-Temps

James Inhofe makes an argument via snowball.More

Voices In Time

1748 | La Brède

Weather Is Fate

Montesquieu inhales the bracing air and is invigorated.More

Voices In Time

c. 160 | Alexandria

Celestial Seasoning

Ptolemy foretells the influence of the stars.More

Voices In Time

802,701 | London

Humanity on the Wane

H.G. Wells changes climates.More

Voices In Time

c. 340 BC | Athens

Inherit the Wind

Aristotle knows the earth is not round.More

Voices In Time

c. 1925 | Sacramento Valley

The Water Will Come

Kate Luckie explains the end of the world.More

Voices In Time

2019 | London

The Crisis Is Already Here

Greta Thunberg wants her future back.More

Voices In Time

c. 944 | Al-Fustat

Enter the Dragon

Al-Masudi on what’s left in the beast’s wake.More

Voices In Time

1864 | Turin

Weapons of Mass Destruction

George Perkins Marsh on our derangement of nature.More

Voices In Time

1859 | Sydney

Spheres of Influence

William Stanley Jevons on the limits of man.More

Voices In Time

1536 | Basel

Nurtured Nature

John Calvin turns to God for the weather report.More

Voices In Time

1908 | West Park, NY

Walking Trees

John Burroughs’ ode to soil.More

Voices In Time

1733 | London

Home Rules

John Arbuthnot praises human adaptability.More

Voices In Time

1865 | London

Particulate Matters

Charles Dickens wades through fog.More

Voices In Time

1910 | Washington, DC

Here Comes the Sun

Henry Adams predicts doom.More

Voices In Time

1683 | London

A Little Ice Age

John Evelyn visits the frost fair.More

Voices In Time

c. 1190 BC | Troy

Make a Sop of All This Solid Globe

William Shakespeare watches discord follow.More

Voices In Time

1865 | Washington, DC

Hidden Wealth

Abraham Lincoln imagines a mineral-based recovery act.More

Voices In Time

c. 1250 | Iceland

Nasty, Brutish, and Cold

Penance on ice.More

Voices In Time

1919 | New York City

Made to Order

Meet the Mechanical Weather Man.More

Voices In Time

c. 380 BC | Athens

Freed Soil

Plato on lost land.More

Voices In Time

1895 | Stockholm

Ice, Air, Acid, Heat

Svante Arrhenius connects carbon dioxide and climate.More

Voices In Time

1848 | Cooperstown, NY

Stump Speech

Susan Fenimore Cooper speaks for the trees.More

Voices In Time

1785 | Paris

Hot and Cold

Thomas Jefferson warms up.More

Voices In Time

1931 | New York City

Unintelligible Design

Charles Fort sees beneficial alternations in the seasons.More

Voices In Time

c. 400 BC | Greece

Weathering Prejudice

On bodies and climates.More

Voices In Time

1514 | Florence

Storyboard

Leonardo da Vinci outlines the apocalypse.More

Voices In Time

c. 1188 | England

East of Eden

Gerald of Wales sees death at the gate.More

Voices In Time

1892 | Washington, DC

For All Occasions

Mark Twain proposes a trade in climates.More

Voices In Time

1938 | Moscow

Correlation Versus Causation

Joseph Stalin on the chicken and egg of development.More

Voices In Time

1867 | London

Against Nature

Karl Marx on the materials of production.More

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