Suivre la piste du CO2 pour rencontrer spiritus sylvestris

This science fiction attempts to take a different view of the icon of climate change: the carbon dioxide (CO2) within the Keeling Curve. It begins by recounting the geochemical experiment by Charles D. Keeling (1928-2005), linking it with the findings of research by two predecessors: Svante A. Arrhe...

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Main Author: Anne-Sophie Milon
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Language:fra
Published: Laboratoire d'Ethnologie et de Sociologie Comparative 2022-10-01
Series:Ateliers d'Anthropologie
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/ateliers/16784
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description This science fiction attempts to take a different view of the icon of climate change: the carbon dioxide (CO2) within the Keeling Curve. It begins by recounting the geochemical experiment by Charles D. Keeling (1928-2005), linking it with the findings of research by two predecessors: Svante A. Arrhenius (1859-1927) and Guy S. Callendar (1898-1964). Then it wonders what process could have activated these scientists’ change of state—from enthusiasm to fear—in the face of rising atmospheric CO2 during the 20th century. Then it contextualises their findings through a geological history of the understanding of Earth in the 19th and 20th centuries. Thus it can take a different view of the chemical history of CO2 and reinterpret the Keeling Curve as Keeling’s summoning of a new being with new skills within his observatory-laboratories: spiritus sylvestris.
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spelling doaj-art-0b1a99a849004d0a851dd03348bc83f42025-01-30T13:42:34ZfraLaboratoire d'Ethnologie et de Sociologie ComparativeAteliers d'Anthropologie2117-38692022-10-015210.4000/ateliers.16784Suivre la piste du CO2 pour rencontrer spiritus sylvestrisAnne-Sophie MilonThis science fiction attempts to take a different view of the icon of climate change: the carbon dioxide (CO2) within the Keeling Curve. It begins by recounting the geochemical experiment by Charles D. Keeling (1928-2005), linking it with the findings of research by two predecessors: Svante A. Arrhenius (1859-1927) and Guy S. Callendar (1898-1964). Then it wonders what process could have activated these scientists’ change of state—from enthusiasm to fear—in the face of rising atmospheric CO2 during the 20th century. Then it contextualises their findings through a geological history of the understanding of Earth in the 19th and 20th centuries. Thus it can take a different view of the chemical history of CO2 and reinterpret the Keeling Curve as Keeling’s summoning of a new being with new skills within his observatory-laboratories: spiritus sylvestris.https://journals.openedition.org/ateliers/16784Charles David Keelingapparitioncarbon dioxide (CO2)history of geologyKeeling Curvespiritus sylvestris
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Suivre la piste du CO2 pour rencontrer spiritus sylvestris
Ateliers d'Anthropologie
Charles David Keeling
apparition
carbon dioxide (CO2)
history of geology
Keeling Curve
spiritus sylvestris
title Suivre la piste du CO2 pour rencontrer spiritus sylvestris
title_full Suivre la piste du CO2 pour rencontrer spiritus sylvestris
title_fullStr Suivre la piste du CO2 pour rencontrer spiritus sylvestris
title_full_unstemmed Suivre la piste du CO2 pour rencontrer spiritus sylvestris
title_short Suivre la piste du CO2 pour rencontrer spiritus sylvestris
title_sort suivre la piste du co2 pour rencontrer spiritus sylvestris
topic Charles David Keeling
apparition
carbon dioxide (CO2)
history of geology
Keeling Curve
spiritus sylvestris
url https://journals.openedition.org/ateliers/16784
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