Book ID: CBB894445522

Imagining Climate Engineering: Dreaming of the Designer Climate (2021)

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Oomen, Jeroen (Author)


Routledge


Publication Date: 2021
Physical Details: 232
Language: English

This book highlights the increasing attention for climate engineering, a set of speculative technologies aimed to counter global warming. What is the future of the global climate? And who gets to decide―or even design―this future? Imagining Climate Engineering explores how and why climate engineering became a potential approach to anthropogenic climate change. Specifically, it showcases how views on the future of climate change and climate engineering evolved by addressing the ways in which climate engineers view its respective physical, political, and moral domains. Tracing the intellectual and political history of dreams to control the weather and climate as well as the discovery of climate change, Jeroen Oomen examines the imaginative parameters within which contemporary climate engineering research takes place. Introducing the analytical metaphor ‘ways of seeing’ to describe explicit or implicit visions, understandings, and foci that facilitate a particular understanding of what is at stake, Imagining Climate Engineering shows how visions on the knowability of climate tie into moral and political convictions about the possibility and desirability of engineering the climate. Marrying science and technology studies and the environmental humanities, Oomen provides crucial insights for the future of the climate change debate for scholars and students.

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Authors & Contributors
Fleming, James Rodger
Weart, Spencer R.
Edwards, Paul N.
McKittrick, Meredith
Yuriko Furuhata
Kathleen Pribyl
Concepts
Climate and climatology
Global warming
Earth sciences
Climate change
Science and society
Public understanding of science
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
Places
United States
South Africa
Japan
Great Britain
Alps (Europe)
Institutions
National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
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