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Oliver Morton

Planet Remade

How Geoengineering Could Change the World

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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 hands. An… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-1-78378-097-6
  • EAN: 9781783780976
  • Produktnummer: 35942796
  • Verlag: Granta Publications
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
  • Seitenangabe: 0 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB

Über den Autor


Oliver Morton is Environment Editor of the Economist, having formerly been Chief News Editor of Nature and Editor-in-Chief of Wired. He is the author of Mapping Mars: Science, Imagination, and the Birth of a World and Eating the Sun: How Light Powers the Planet and has written for many publications, including Nature, the Independent, National Geographic, the New Yorker, Newsweek, Prospect, and Wired. Asteroid 10716 Olivermorton is named for him.

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