Remaking the Sky
Oliver Morton
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Description for Remaking the Sky
Hardback. BIC Classification: WZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 150 x 115. Weight in Grams: 666.
The risks of global warming are pressing and potentially vast. The difficulty of doing without fossil fuels is daunting, possibly even insurmountable. So there is an urgent need to rethink our responses to the crisis. To meet that need, 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. These are the technologies of geoengineering--and as Oliver Morton argues in this visionary book, it would be as irresponsible to ignore them as it ... Read more
The risks of global warming are pressing and potentially vast. The difficulty of doing without fossil fuels is daunting, possibly even insurmountable. So there is an urgent need to rethink our responses to the crisis. To meet that need, 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. These are the technologies of geoengineering--and as Oliver Morton argues in this visionary book, it would be as irresponsible to ignore them as it ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2020
Publisher
The University Press Group Ltd United States
Condition
New
Number of Pages
440
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691148250
SKU
V9780691148250
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Ref
99-15
About Oliver Morton
Oliver Morton is briefings editor at the Economist, and his writing has appeared in the New Yorker and other publications. He is the author of Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet.
Reviews for Remaking the Sky
One of The Independent's 6 Best Books in Nature 2015 One of Science Friday's Best Science Books of 2016 One of The Guardian's Best Books of 2015 One of The Guardian's Best Science Books of 2015 One of LinkedIn's Best Business Books of 2015 Shortlisted for the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize 2016 Longlisted for the 2015 Samuel ... Read more