The Volcanoes and the Paintings

How historical atmospheric change shows up in art

I wonder what it would be like if we had never figured out why and how the climate is changing. What if we had a vague sense that the weather is getting warmer and weirder — there sure do seem to be a lot of floods and droughts! Were there quite so many back in our childhoods? — but no sense of the causes and trajectory of those changes? What would we t…