Climate enters political action through successive and contested conversions between atmospheric processes, bodily exposure, measurements, models, maps, indicators, budgets and institutional decisions. No translation is neutral. Each selects variables, establishes scales, compresses uncertainty and redistributes significance. A heatwave experienced as sleeplessness, illness or inaccessible public space may reappear institutionally as a temperature average, vulnerability index or coloured polygon. Something becomes actionable, but something else may disappear. ClimateTranslation names this chain of transformations through which atmosphere acquires administrative form. It asks what survives each conversion, what is amplified, what is suppressed and who gains the authority to define equivalence between lived conditions and technical representation. The political territory of climate emerges precisely at these interfaces. A model can direct resources; a threshold can activate emergency protocols; a map can render one neighbourhood urgent and another statistically negligible. Climate justice therefore depends not only on better data but on inspectable passages between experience and decision. Translation becomes an infrastructural act through which climate is made visible, governable and distributable.
