| THE PLANET REMADE How Geoengineering Could Change the World Oliver Morton Princeton University Press, November 2015 |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-691-14825-0 | ||||
| ISBN-10 0-691-14825-2 | 428pp. | HC/BWI | $29.95 | |
| Introduction: Two Questions | 1 | |
| Climate Risks and Responsibilities | 5 | |
| The Second Fossil-Fuel Century | 8 | |
| Altering the Earthsystem | 22 | |
| Deliberate Planets, Imagined Worlds | 26 | |
| Part One: Energies | ||
| 1: | The Top of the World | 35 |
| Discovering the Stratosphere | 38 | |
| Fallout | 43 | |
| The Ozone Layer | 47 | |
| The Veilmakers | 54 | |
| 2: | A Planet Called Weather | 57 |
| The Worldfalls | 62 | |
| The Trenberth Diagram and Climate Science | 66 | |
| Steam Engines and Spaceship Earth | 71 | |
| 3: | Pinatubo | 83 |
| Volcanoes and Climate | 86 | |
| Predictions and Surprises | 93 | |
| 4: | Dimming the Noontime Sun | 100 |
| Rough Magic | 107 | |
| Promethean Science | 112 | |
| 5: | Coming to Think This Way | 124 |
| Martians and Moral Equivalents | 129 | |
| The Day Before Yesterday | 135 | |
| The Rise of Carbon Dioxide Politics | 139 | |
| 6: | Moving the Goalposts | 148 |
| From Plan B to Breathing Space | 156 | |
| Expanding the Boundaries | 165 | |
| Part Two: Substances | ||
| 7: | Nitrogen | 175 |
| The Making of the Population Bomb | 184 | |
| Defusing the Population Bomb | 189 | |
| Far from Fixed | 195 | |
| How to Spot a Geoengineer | 201 | |
| 8: | Carbon Past, Carbon Present | 209 |
| The Anthropocene | 219 | |
| The Greening Planet | 229 | |
| 9: | Carbon Present, Carbon Future | 243 |
| Ocean Anaemia | 251 | |
| Cultivating One's Garden | 259 | |
| 10: | Sulphur and Soggy Mirrors | 268 |
| Global Cooling | 274 | |
| Cloudships | 283 | |
| Bright Patchwork Planet | 288 | |
| What the Thunder Didn't Say | 298 | |
| Part Three: Possibilities | ||
| 11: | The Ends of the World | 305 |
| Control and Catastrophe | 312 | |
| Doom and Denial | 317 | |
| The Traditions of Titans | 323 | |
| A Tale of Two Cliques | 332 | |
| After Such Knowledge | 338 | |
| 12: | The Deliberate Planet | 344 |
| The Concert | 347 | |
| Small Effects, and Bad Ones | 359 | |
| And Straight on 'til Morning | 369 | |
| Envoi | 375 | |
| Acknowledgements | 379 | |
| References, Notes and Further Reading | 383 | |
| Bibliography | 393 | |
| Index | 415 | |
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