Experiment
Dimming the Sun: Why We Need Geoengineering to Keep the World from Falling Apart
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- Thomas Ramge
- Experiment
- Hardcover
- 9798893030549
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- Science > Global Warming & Climate Change
- English
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It would be great if humanity could forego solar geoengineering and get climate change under control before the world goes off the rails. I just don't believe in that anymore.
Many climate scientists believe 2023 was the hottest year in 120,000 years. Polar ice caps have been melting faster than models predicted. It seems the world is primed to surpass the Paris Agreement's 2 degree warming threshold, the tipping point which will lead to climate disaster.
Enter solar geoengineering. Through methods such as the atmospheric injection of sulphur aerosol, the formation of human-generated cirrus clouds, or the use of solar sails in space, solar geoengineering offers a way to slow the warming of the earth caused by human-centered climate change. In Dimming 2
the Sun, science journalist Thomas Ramge argues that these ideas are as scientifically plausible as politically challenging. Ramge addresses:
- - What approaches could be used to dim the sun effectively and safely
- - What risks--both geophysical and political--come with attempting to dim the sun
- - How the international community might come together to agree on and regulate a plan for geoengineering
With clear language, tested science, and a calculated balance of realism and optimism, Thomas Ramge offers a crucial resource for understanding this
Author Bio
I am a non-fiction book author, keynote speaker and moderator of public events.
My journalistic and academic work at brand eins, The Economist and Weizenbaum Institute connects the dots between technology, its impact on business, work and its overall consequences for society and policy-making.
My books and texts have been honored with several awards, including the Axiom Business Book Award 2019, the getAbstract International Book Award 2018, the Financial Times Business Book Award, the Herbert Quandt Media Award, the ADC Award and the Best of Corporate Publishing Award.
Over the past 15 years, I have written more than a dozen books, including the Spiegel bestseller The Flicks, the handbooks In Data We Trust and Smart Data and, together with Erik Spiekermann, a bestselling book on design thinking. In 2014 I published my first novel about the good life (and the bad life) in large corporations.
Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data, which I co-authored with Oxford professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, has been translated into 20 languages and has stimulated a worldwide debate on data monopolies.
My newest book in English, a short and comprehensive introduction to Artificial Intelligence, hit the shelves in 2019.
Source: www.thomasramge.de
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