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David Keith A Case for Climate Engineering (Hardback) Boston Review Books
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- Book Title
- Case for Climate Engineering
- Publication Name
- A Case for Climate Engineering
- Title
- A Case for Climate Engineering
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10
- 0262019825
- EAN
- 9780262019828
- ISBN
- 9780262019828
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Genre
- Technology & Engineering, Science, Political Science
- Topic
- Environmental / General, Global Warming & Climate Change, Public Policy / Environmental Policy
- Release Year
- 2013
- Release Date
- 20/09/2013
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Item Length
- 7.2in
- Item Width
- 4.8in
- Item Weight
- 9.7 Oz
- Series
- Boston Review Books
- Publication Year
- 2013
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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A leading scientist argues that we must consider deploying climate engineering technology to slow the pace of global warming. Climate engineering-which could slow the pace of global warming by injecting reflective particles into the upper atmosphere-has emerged in recent years as an extremely controversial technology. And for good reason- it carries unknown risks and it may undermine commitments to conserving energy. Some critics also view it as an immoral human breach of the natural world. The latter objection, David Keith argues in A Scientist's Case for Climate Engineering , is groundless; we have been using technology to alter our environment for years. But he agrees that there are large issues at stake. A leading scientist long concerned about climate change, Keith offers no naive proposal for an easy fix to what is perhaps the most challenging question of our time; climate engineering is no silver bullet. But he argues that after decades during which very little progress has been made in reducing carbon emissions we must put this technology on the table and consider it responsibly. That doesn't mean we will deploy it, and it doesn't mean that we can abandon efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But we must understand fully what research needs to be done and how the technology might be designed and used. This book provides a clear and accessible overview of what the costs and risks might be, and how climate engineering might fit into a larger program for managing climate change.
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Publisher
MIT Press
ISBN-10
0262019825
ISBN-13
9780262019828
eBay Product ID (ePID)
166458423
Product Key Features
Book Title
Case for Climate Engineering
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Environmental / General, Global Warming & Climate Change, Public Policy / Environmental Policy
Publication Year
2013
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Science, Political Science
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.2in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
4.8in
Item Weight
9.7 Oz
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Qc903.K45 2013
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College Graduate Student
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Keith deserves credit for directing attention to ideas he knows are dangerous.Accepting the concept of the Anthropocene means accepting that humans have the responsibility tofind technological fixes for disasters they have created. But little progress has been made toward aprocess for rationally supervising such activity on a global scale. We need a more open discussionabout a seemingly outlandish but real geopolitical risk: war over climate engineering., Keith's proposal is audacious at first, but in the course of this brief book he makes a convincing case., Keith deserves credit for directing attention to ideas he knows are dangerous. Accepting the concept of the Anthropocene means accepting that humans have the responsibility to find technological fixes for disasters they have created. But little progress has been made toward a process for rationally supervising such activity on a global scale. We need a more open discussion about a seemingly outlandish but real geopolitical risk: war over climate engineering., Keith manages to keep the tone sober without ever sounding dull. His chapter on ethics deftly summarises some of the competing moral claims...Reading about proposals to alter the climate of an entire planet on purpose is dizzying. Yet scientists already talk of the dawning of a new geological age, the Anthropocene, named because humans, or rather, the industrial civilisation they have created, have become the main factor driving the evolution of Earth. [ The Case for Climate Engineering emphasises] just how seriously the idea of deliberately altering the climate is being considered, both in scientific journals and among some governments...[Keith is] a guide for the undecided., Keith manages to keep the tone sober without ever sounding dull. His chapter onethics deftly summarises some of the competing moral claims...Reading about proposals to alterthe climate of an entire planet on purpose is dizzying. Yet scientists already talk of the dawningof a new geological age, the Anthropocene, named because humans, or rather, the industrialcivilisation they have created, have become the main factor driving the evolution of Earth. [ The Case for Climate Engineering emphasises] just how seriously the idea ofdeliberately altering the climate is being considered, both in scientific journals and among somegovernments...[Keith is] a guide for the undecided., Keith's proposal is audacious at first, but in the course of this brief book he makesa convincing case.
Copyright Date
2013
Lccn
2013-027459
Dewey Decimal
551.68
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
Boston Review Bks.
Dewey Edition
23
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