Hulme Can Science Fix Climate Change?

A Case Against Climate Engineering
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-7456-8526-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 144 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: New Human Frontiers - Polity

Climate change seems to be an insurmountable problem. Politicalsolutions have so far had little impact. Some scientists are nowadvocating the so-called 'Plan B', a more direct way ofreducing the rate of future warming by reflecting more sunlightback to space, creating a thermostat in the sky. In this book, Mike Hulme argues against this kind of hubristictechno-fix. Drawing upon a distinguished career studying thescience, politics and ethics of climate change, he shows why usingscience to fix the global climate is undesirable, ungovernable andunattainable. Science and technology should instead serve the morepragmatic goals of increasing societal resilience to weather risks,improving regional air quality and driving forward an energytechnology transition. Seeking to reset the planet'sthermostat is not the answer. Climatechange seems to be an insurmountable problem. Political solutionshave so far had little impact. Some scientists are now advocatingthe so-called 'Plan B', a more direct way of reducingthe rate of future warming by reflecting more sunlight back tospace, creating a thermostat in the sky. Inthis book, Mike Hulme argues against this kind of hubristictechno-fix. Drawing upon a distinguished career studying thescience, politics and ethics of climate change, he shows why usingscience to fix the global climate is undesirable, ungovernable andunattainable. Science and technology should instead serve the morepragmatic goals of increasing societal resilience to weather risks,improving regional air quality and driving forward an energytechnology transition. Seeking to reset the planet'sthermostat is not the answer.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hulme, Mike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements page vi
Acronyms page vii
Preface viii
1 Imagining an Engineered Climate 1
2 Designing a Global Thermostat 32
3 Governing the World's Temperature 57
4 Living in an Experimental World 89
5 Reframing the (Climate) Problem 114
Notes 141
Bibliography 144
Index 150

Über Autor(innen)

Mike Hulme is Professor of Climate and Culture in theDepartment of Geography at King's College London. His 2009Why We Disagree about Climate Change won TheEconomist's 'Book of the Year Award'. He hascontributed to public debates in the UK and US, writing for TheGuardian and the Wall Street Journal. From 2000 to 2007he was the Founding Director of the Tyndall Centre for ClimateChange Research.