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The planet remade : how geoengineering could change the world /

In an effort to rethink our responses to the crisis of global warming, a small but increasingly influential group of scientists is exploring proposals for planned human intervention in the climate system: a stratospheric veil against the sun, the cultivation of photosynthetic plankton, fleets of unm...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Morton, Oliver (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : two questions
  • Part One. Energies. The top of the world
  • A planet called weather
  • Pinatubo
  • Dimming the noontime sun
  • Coming to think this way
  • Moving the goalposts
  • Part Two. Substances. Nitrogen
  • Carbon past, carbon present
  • Carbon present, carbon future
  • Sulphur and soggy mirrors
  • Part Three. Possibilities. The ends of the world
  • The deliberate planet.