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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Morton, Oliver (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2016.
Subjects:
Environmental engineering.
Climate change mitigation.
Technique de l'environnement.
Climat > Changements > Atténuation.
environmental engineering.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science.
Environmental engineering
Climate change mitigation
Miljöteknik.
Humanekologi.
Miljöfrågor.
Klimatförändringar.
Växthuseffekten.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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