Bibliograph

Can Science Fix Climate Change, a Case Against Climate Engineering

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Can Science Fix Climate Change, a Case Against Climate Engineering

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Can Science Fix Climate Change

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

881417173

Sub title

a Case Against Climate Engineering

Summary

Climate change seems to be an insurmountable problem. Political solutions have so far had little impact. Some scientists are now advocating the so-called 'Plan B', a more direct way of reducing the rate of future warming by reflecting more sunlight back to space, creating a thermostat in the sky. In this book, Mike Hulme argues against this kind of hubristic techno-fix. Drawing upon a distinguished career studying the science, politics and ethics of climate change, he shows why using science to fix the global climate is undesirable, ungovernable and unattainable. Science and t

Table Of Contents

Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Acronyms; Preface; One: Imagining an Engineered Climate; Techno-fixing the climate; What is geoengineering?; Feeding the imagination; Climate emergencies; Metaphors of agency; Summary; Two: Designing a Global Thermostat; Optimal climates; 'No more than two degrees'; A thermostat for the world; Global temperature or local weather?; Summary; Three: Governing the World's Temperature; Spicing it up; Governing research; Governing deployment; Absent voices; Summary; Four: Living in an Experimental World; Biosphere-2The nature of the experimentPlan B and infinite regress; Re-making the earth, re-making the human; Summary; Five: Reframing the (Climate) Problem; Approach the goal obliquely; Climate change is wicked54; Climate pragmatism; Why science cannot fix climate change; Notes; Bibliography; Index

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