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A Case For Climate Engineering
David W. Keith
The MIT Press
September 2013
On Sale: September 20, 2013
112 pages
ISBN: 0262019825
EAN: 9780262019828
Kindle: B00FAGUNSS
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Non-Fiction
Climate engineering -- which could slow the pace of global
warming by injecting reflective particles into the upper
atmosphere -- has emerged in recent years as an extremely
controversial technology. And for good reason: it carries
unknown risks and it may undermine commitments to conserving
energy. Some critics also view it as an immoral human breach
of the natural world. The latter objection, David Keith
argues in A Scientist's Case for Climate Engineering,
is groundless; we have been using technology to alter our
environment for years. But he agrees that there are large
issues at stake. A leading scientist long concerned
about climate change, Keith offers no naïve proposal for an
easy fix to what is perhaps the most challenging question of
our time; climate engineering is no silver bullet. But he
argues that after decades during which very little progress
has been made in reducing carbon emissions we must put this
technology on the table and consider it responsibly. That
doesn't mean we will deploy it, and it doesn't mean that we
can abandon efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But
we must understand fully what research needs to be done and
how the technology might be designed and used. This book
provides a clear and accessible overview of what the costs
and risks might be, and how climate engineering might fit
into a larger program for managing climate change.
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