Geo-Engineering Climate Change : Environmental Necessity or Pandora's Box?
ISBN: 9780521198035 | 0521198038
Edition: 1stFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 1/18/2010
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The first book to present a critical appraisal of the geo-scale engineering interventions proposed as potential measures to counter the devastation of run-away global warming. Presenting the technical details, and advantages and pitfalls of the various schemes, this is essential reading for researchers and policy makers at Copenhagen and beyond.
This book is the first to present a detailed and critical appraisal of the geo-scale engineering interventions that have been proposed as potential measures to counter the ... MORE
This book is the first to present a detailed and critical appraisal of the geo-scale engineering interventions that have been proposed as potential measures to counter the ... MORE
| List of contributors | p. vii |
| Preface | p. xv |
| Scene setting | p. 1 |
| Geo-engineering: could we or should we make it work? | p. 3 |
| Reframing the climate change challenge in light of post-2000 emission trends | p. 27 |
| Predicting climate tipping points | p. 50 |
| A geophysiologist's thoughts on geo-engineering | p. 84 |
| Coping with carbon: a near-term strategy to limit carbon dioxide... MORE | p. 93 |
| Carbon dioxide reduction | p. 105 |
| Capturing Co2 from the atmosphere: rationale and process design considerations | p. 107 |
| Carbon neutral hydrocarbons | p. 127 |
| Ocean fertilization: a potential means of geo-engineering? | p. 149 |
| The next generation of iron fertilization experiments in the Southern Ocean | p. 181 |
| Solar radiation management | p. 205 |
| Global temperature stabilization via controlled albedo enhancement of low-level maritime clouds | p. 207 |
| Sea-going hardware for the cloud albedo method of reversing global warming | p. 229 |
| An overview of geo-engineering of climate using stratospheric sulphate aerosols | p. 250 |
| Global and Arctic climate engineering: numerical model studies | p. 286 |
| Index | p. 307 |
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