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Climate change art is art inspired by climate change and global warming, generally intended to overcome humans' hardwired tendency to value personal experience over data and to disengage from data-based representations by making the data "vivid and accessible". One of the goal of climate change art is to "raise awareness of the crisis", as well as engage viewers politically and environmentally.

Climate change art is becoming a form of community involvement with the environment, as exemplified by Olafur Eliasson's famous "Ice Watch" piece. Modern climate change artists express their socio-political concerns through their various artistic tools, such as paintings, photography, musical and films. These works are intended to encourage viewers to reflect on their daily actions "in a socially responsible manner to preserve and protect the planet".

Climate change art is created both by scientists and by non-scientist artists. The field overlaps with data art.

History
As the article from The Economist states, "For centuries, artist generally saw nature as the work of God". This idea is typified by Romantic landscape painting, one of the first work of art to link nature and humans. German painter Caspar David Friedrich, is considered as the founder of Romantic landscape painting, and reflected the nature's "hand of the divine in the universal fabric of creation". His work later spread abroad, and in the United States in the 1830s and 1840s, Thomas Cole became the foremost exponent of Romantic landscape painting. These European colonist painters often depicted the landscape as a Garden of Eden, proving God's presence in the natural world. However, these lands had already been altered by the indigenous people who had lived there before. This discrepancy is known as The Pristine Myth, which "the native people were transparent in the landscape".

Nevertheless, these romantic landscape paintings often contain messages and declarations about the nature that influenced some attitude which "help to draw attention to certain aspects of the environment that otherwise would be overlooked". One example in the United States is the paintings of Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran that led to the idea of passing on a clean environment to future generations and influenced the policy of creating the first natural parks.