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Intro -- Contextualizing Climate Change: Linking Science and Culture -- ACS Symposium Series1382 -- Contextualizing Climate Change: Linking Science and Culture -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Montezuma: Lush Green and Natural Warmth -- Monteverde: Orgy of the Golden Toad -- The Ring of Fire: Volcanoes and Other Natural Forcing -- England: John Dalton and the Atomic Theory -- Doha: Mass Balance-It's the Law -- China: From the Cultural Revolution to the Economic Revolution -- Grand Canyon: Water Structure, Properties, and Challenges -- Ethiopia: Water and Human Health -- Jimma: Bean to Brew-What's Invested in a Cup of Coffee? -- Switzerland: Glaciers Retreat -- Geneva: Hypothesis to Informed Consensus -- Churchill: Climate Change at the Arctic's Edge -- Copenhagen: The Long Road from Rio to Paris -- Paris: The Paris Agreement and the Path Beyond -- Lima: Indigenous Peoples and Disenfranchised Voices -- Planet Earth: The Anthropocene -- Costa Rica: Natural Capital -- Editors' Biographies -- Indexes -- Indexes -- Author Index -- Subject Index -- 1 -- Introduction -- The Costa Rican Cloud Forest: 10.30° North, 84.80° West -- Figure 1. Red-eyed Tree Frog (Agalychnis callidryas). [Photo courtesy of Spencer Smith]. -- References -- 2 -- Montezuma: Lush Green and Natural Warmth -- Montezuma, Costa Rica: 9.66° North, 85.07° West -- Figure 1. Mantled Howler Monkey (Alouatta palliate). [Photos courtesy of Sarah Denhardt]. -- The Greenhouse Effect -- The Visible Spectrum and the Color Green -- Figure 2. The Color Wheel. Sir Isaac Newton developed the first circular color diagram in 1666. Today, the color wheel is a fundamental educational tool for those studying color theory. -- Light as a Wave -- Figure 3. The visible range of the Electromagnetic Spectrum. -- Figure 4. Long and Short Wavelength Light.