Keywords:
Climate change mitigation.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
No detailed description available for "The Planet Remade".
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (441 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781400874453
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=4012405
DDC:
363.73874
Language:
English
Note:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: Two Questions -- Climate Risks and Responsibilities -- The Second Fossil-Fuel Century -- Altering the Earthsystem -- Deliberate Planets, Imagined Worlds -- Part One: Energies -- 1 The Top of the World -- Discovering the Stratosphere -- Fallout -- The Ozone Layer -- The Veilmakers -- 2 A Planet Called Weather -- The Worldfalls -- The Trenberth Diagram and Climate Science -- Steam Engines and Spaceship Earth -- 3 Pinatubo -- Volcanoes and Climate -- Predictions and Surprises -- 4 Dimming the Noontime Sun -- Rough Magic -- Promethean Science -- 5 Coming to Think This Way -- Martians and Moral Equivalents -- The Day Before Yesterday -- The Rise of Carbon Dioxide Politics -- 6 Moving the Goalposts -- From Plan B to Breathing Space -- Expanding the Boundaries -- Part Two: Substances -- 7 Nitrogen -- The Making of the Population Bomb -- Defusing the Population Bomb -- Far from Fixed -- How to Spot a Geoengineer -- 8 Carbon Past, Carbon Present -- The Anthropocene -- The Greening Planet -- 9 Carbon Present, Carbon Future -- Ocean Anaemia -- Cultivating One's Garden -- 10 Sulphur and Soggy Mirrors -- Global Cooling -- Cloudships -- Bright Patchwork Planet -- What the Thunder Didn't Say -- Part Three: Possibilities -- 11 The Ends of the World -- Control and Catastrophe -- Doom and Denial -- The Traditions of Titans -- A Tale of Two Cliques -- After Such Knowledge -- 12 The Deliberate Planet -- The Concert -- Small Effects, and Bad Ones -- And Straight on 'til Morning -- Envoi -- Acknowledgements -- References, Notes and Further Reading -- Bibliography -- Index.
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