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Case for Climate Engineering

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Description for Case for Climate Engineering Hardcover. Series: Boston Review Books. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: RNPG; TQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 179 x 124 x 22. Weight in Grams: 276.

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 ... Read more

A leading scientist long concerned about climate change, Keith offers no naïve 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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Product Details

Publisher
MIT Press Ltd United States
Number of pages
112
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Series
Boston Review Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780262019828
SKU
V9780262019828
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-2

About David Keith
David Keith has worked near the interface between climate science, energy technology, and public policy for twenty years. He is currently the Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) at Harvard University and Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Reviews for Case for Climate Engineering
Keith's proposal is audacious at first, but in the course of this brief book he makes a convincing case.
Slate
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 ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Case for Climate Engineering


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