Historical and cultural approaches to climate generally consider climate to be a stabilising concept between weather and culture. Different historical and cultural concepts of climate signify different ways of learning to live with the weather. However, anthropogenic climate change evidences the limit of this approach: instead of stabilising, climates ephemeralise together with the ways we have come to adapt to them. Changing climates require a concept of climate that captures how climates are experienced both as stable and ephemeral. To create such a concept, I engage in an exercise of counterfactual etymology, reconstructing the concept of climate that might have emerged from the Ancient Greek term hora as opposed to klima. Central to my re-creation of phenomenological climate are Plato's myths, through which I highlight the methodological kinship between myth and phenomenology. Drawing on a later dialogue, Philebus, I provide an ontological account of climates as both stable and ephemeral. I conclude by situating my approach to climate and its changes in recent work on the relationship between weather and climate, arguing for the necessity of phenomenological climate in order to make sense of what changes with climate change. My turn to Ancient Greek philosophy and its application to the phenomenology of climate and its changes sounds out a novel approach to research in historical geography.

气候的历史和文化方法通常认为气候是天气和文化之间的稳定概念。不同的历史和文化气候概念意味着学习适应天气的不同方式。然而，人为气候变化证明了这种方法的局限性：气候没有稳定，而是随着我们适应它们的方式一起短暂化。不断变化的气候需要一个气候概念来捕捉气候如何既稳定又短暂。为了创造这样一个概念，我参与了反事实词源学的练习，重建了可能从古希腊术语hora中出现的气候概念，而不是klima. 我重新创造现象学气候的核心是柏拉图的神话，通过它我强调了神话和现象学之间的方法论亲缘关系。根据后来的对话Philebus，我提供了对气候既稳定又短暂的本体论解释。最后，我将我的气候方法及其变化放在最近关于天气和气候之间关系的工作中，争论现象学气候的必要性，以便理解气候变化带来的变化。我转向古希腊哲学及其在气候现象学及其变化中的应用听起来是一种研究历史地理学的新方法。