A Case for Climate Engineering

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ID23399684
AuthorsDouglas Keith (0000-0002-8224-3780, corresponding author), David Keith (0000-0003-3564-2030)
Year2013
Pages224
Publication date2013-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueCase for Climate Engineering (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherThe MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.7551/mitpress/9920.001.0001
OpenAlexW381022466
Open LibraryOL29707059M
ISBN9780262317788
LanguageEN
Citations received95

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 naive 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.

Atmosphere (unit) · Climate change · Economics · Environmental ethics · Geography · Global warming · Greenhouse gas · Meteorology · Natural (archaeology) · Natural resource economics · Pace · Political science · Climate Change and Geoengineering · Ecology · Philosophy · Environmental engineering

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