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Atmosphere of hope : searching for solutions to the climate crisis /

Tim F. Flannery, Author | New York : Atlantic Monthly Press | 2015

Explains the fast-approaching climate crisis while drawing on the latest scientific findings to outline promising clean technologies involving soft geo-engineering.

Climate intervention : reflecting sunlight to cool Earth

Washington : The National Academies Press | 2015

The growing problem of changing environmental conditions caused by climate destabilization is well recognized as one of the defining issues of our time. The root problem is greenhouse gas emissions, and the fundamental solution is curbing those [...]

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The planet remade : how geoengineering could change the world /

Oliver Morton, Author | London : Granta | 2015

In an effort to rethink our responses to the crisis of global warming, a small but increasingly influential group of scientists is exploring proposals for planned human intervention in the climate system: a stratospheric veil against the sun, th[...]

The planet remade : how geoengineering could change the world /

Oliver Morton, Author | London : Granta | 2015

In an effort to rethink our responses to the crisis of global warming, a small but increasingly influential group of scientists is exploring proposals for planned human intervention in the climate system: a stratospheric veil against the sun, th[...]

E-resource

Earthmasters : the dawn of the age of climate engineering /

Clive Hamilton, Author | New Haven : Yale University Press | 2013

This book goes to the heart of the unfolding reality of the twenty-first century: international efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions have failed and before the end of the century Earth is now projected to be warmer than it has been for [...]

The carbon crunch : how we're getting climate change wrong--and how to fix it /

Dieter Helm, Author | New Haven : Yale University Press | 2012

"Despite commitments to renewable energy and two decades of international negotiations, global emissions continue to rise. Coal, the most damaging of all fossil fuels, has actually risen from 25% to almost 30% of world energy use. And while Euro[...]

Oxford handbook of climate change and society

John S. Dryzek, Editor ; Richard B. Noorgaard, Editor ; David Schlosberg, Author | Oxford : Oxford University Press | Oxford handbooks | 2011

"Climate change presents perhaps the most profound challenge ever confronted by human society. This volume is a definitive analysis drawing on the best thinking on questions of how climate change affects human systems, and how societies can, do,[...]

Should there be an international climate treaty?

Susan Hunnicutt, Editor | [S.l.] : Greenhaven Press | At issue | 2011