Past the Enlightenment period, the concept of climate and its influence on people has expanded to include more scientific knowledge. Although people continued to want domination over the climate and their environment through economic gain, ideas of how exactly the climate was changed by humans started to rise. The actual nature of the climate crisis was still not entirely clear, as it seemed to be generally believed that warming of the land was beneficial, and that whatever negative effects may occur will just dissipate by nature’s own design, maintaining suitable conditions for human life. The sciences of climate that we learned about are often set in settler colonial mindsets, which influence the kind of information that future and modern scientists have to work with. The biases of climate scientists at the time persist despite how science is ideally meant to have no biases. The climate data captured at the time centers around areas that mattered to the scientific community, or governmental bodies of the time, dismissing other populations and their experiences. The modern definition of climate science, as Coen says, is now more predictive and global, but in many cases, this supposedly comprehensive view of anthropogenic climate change is not equally distributed.
Foucault’s description of the development of the human sciences that occupy the space between biology, economics, and philology can be applied to how individuals perceive Man in relation to Nature and how that has evolved over time. The human sciences expand on the scientific knowledge of those three disciplines, and tries to capture the essence of Man and as an ‘object of knowledge,’ and eventually he breaks Man out of that mold. The different ways of knowing in particular time periods over the course of history influences how people think about climate. Maybe as the human sciences develop, we become more interested in how Man is interacting with nature, which was shown in the greater scientific discoveries about climate, or in how Man continued to aim for dominating nature.