Naturalist book illustrations of the past, such as those seen in Gilbert White’s 1789 Natural History of Selbourne and the Collins’ New Naturalist Series of the 1960s, offered environmental information to the public through pictures. Using the aesthetics of naturalist illustration, O’Brien examined the role climate science plays in the public imagination, and the powerful effect they has in shaping how people see the world in this series of large-scale pen and ink drawings.