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Title:
Fixing the sky : the checkered history of weather and climate control
Author:
Fleming, James Rodger.
ISBN:
9780231513067
Publication Information:
New York : Columbia University Press, ©2010.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiv, 325 pages) : illustrations.
Series:
Columbia studies in international and global history

Columbia studies in international and global history.
Abstract:
As the alarm over global warming spreads, radical ideas are taking hold: if cuts in greenhouse gas emissions are insufficient, let's use reflective nanoparticles to bounce sunlight directly into space or launch mirrors into orbit around the earth. We could make clouds thicker and brighter or surround Arctic sea ice with a huge plastic flotilla. Yet while these proposals seem edgy and exciting, they often test the limits of scientific possibility and overlook the political, ethical, and social consequences of climate management. Revisiting over a century of efforts at weather and climat.
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