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The Planet Remade
Oliver Morton
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Description for The Planet Remade
Paperback. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: RNK; RNPG; TQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 131 x 230 x 32. Weight in Grams: 318.
The risks of global warming are real, and potentially vast. The difficulty of doing without fossil fuels is daunting, and possibly insurmountable. So there is an urgent need for new thinking on climate change. 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; a fleet of unmanned ships seeding clouds: these are the radical technologies of climate geoengineering. It is chilling to think of such power, and such scope for misadventure or malice, in humans ... Read more
The risks of global warming are real, and potentially vast. The difficulty of doing without fossil fuels is daunting, and possibly insurmountable. So there is an urgent need for new thinking on climate change. 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; a fleet of unmanned ships seeding clouds: these are the radical technologies of climate geoengineering. It is chilling to think of such power, and such scope for misadventure or malice, in humans ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Granta Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783780983
SKU
V9781783780983
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About Oliver Morton
OLIVER MORTON is Briefings Editor of the Economist, having formerly been Chief News Editor of Nature and Editor of Wired UK. He is the author of Mapping Mars: Science, Imagination, and the Birth of a World and Eating the Sun: How Light Powers the Planet. He has written for many publications, including Nature, the Independent, National Geographic, the New Yorker, ... Read more
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