Balloon debate -- Taking care of the future -- Rethinking the unthinkable -- Behind the scenes at the Royal Society -- Open-air experimentation -- Making models -- The reluctant geoengineers -- Reclaiming the experiment -- Index
Summary
Experiments in geoengineering - intentionally manipulating the Earth's climate to reduce global warming - have become the focus of a vital debate about responsible science and innovation. Drawing on three years of sociological research working with scientists on one of the world's first major geoengineering projects, this book examines the politics of experimentation. Geoengineering provides a test case for rethinking the responsibilities of scientists and asking how science can take better care of the futures that it helps bring about. This book gives students, researchers and the general read
