The planet remade : how geoengineering could change the world

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个人著者:

Morton, Oliver, author.

PUBDATE:

2016

2015

GVPL_PUBLICATION_INFO:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2016.

物理描述:

428 pages ; 25 cm

ISBN:

9780691148250

摘要:

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 unmanned ships seeding the clouds -- all technologies of the new field of "geoengineering." In this book, journalist Oliver Morton explores the history, politics, and cutting-edge science of this new field, weighing both the promises and perils of its controversial strategies and examining its scale and ambition relative to the profound changes in the planet's clouds, soils, winds, and seas during the last century.

一般注释:

Originally published in Great Britain by Granta Books, 2015.

内容:

Introduction: Two questions -- The top of the world -- A planet called weather -- Pinatubo -- Dimming the noontime sun -- Coming to think this way -- Moving the goalposts -- Nitrogen -- Carbon past, carbon present -- Carbon present, carbon future -- Sulphur and soggy mirrors -- The ends of the world -- The deliberate planet.

主题词汇:

Environmental engineering.

Climate change mitigation.

Environmental geotechnology.

LANGUAGE:

英文

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