Strange Weather assembles works of art that represent the extreme climatic events taking place all around us. We live in a time distinguished by increasingly strange weather—a phenomenon atmospheric scientist Katharine Hayhoe likens to “global weirding.” Similarly, environmental activist Greta Thunberg has written that “the weather seems to be on steroids, and natural disasters increasingly appear less and less natural.”
It’s hard to even quantify all the transformations we have witnessed in the last thirty years: megadroughts, melting ice caps, unabating wildfires, intense flooding, devastating hurricanes, stronger jet streams, warming oceans, heavier rainfall, dangerous bomb cyclones, rising sea levels, interminable heat waves, lethal tornadoes, and deadly storm surges. These are fueled by the greenhouse gases (such as CO2, methane, and nitrous oxide) we emit into the Earth’s atmosphere, speeding up the rate of change and amplifying the extremes.
This section is part of the exhibition INTO THE TIME HORIZON.
