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March:Shackleton’s Man Goes South (FREE)

As part of the Climate Changing programme for 2013, a new art installation will open in the atmosphere gallery. Shackleton’s Man Goes South is an ebook work of fiction. The work is inspired by author Tony White’s discovery in the archives of a little-known climate change science fiction story written in 1911 by the atmospheric scientist (and Captain Scott’s surviving meteorologist) George Clarke Simpson for a whimsical shipboard newspaper founded by Sir Ernest Shackleton. From Simpson’s ‘Heroic Age’ imaginings of melting polar ice, to a series of interviews with scientists working at the cutting edge of climate science today, the story uses fiction and the long prose narrative to explore the implications of Simpson’s story – and Shackleton’s legacy – from South Kensington to South Georgia and beyond.