Автор: Morton Oliver Название: Moon ISBN: 1788162544 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781788162548 Издательство: Profile Цена: 20240 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Автор: Morton Oliver Название: Moon ISBN: 1788162544 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781788162548 Издательство: Profile Рейтинг: Цена: 20240.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Автор: Morton Oliver Название: The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World ISBN: 069117590X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691175904 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 16890.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
A fascinating look at the perils and promise of geoengineering and our potential future on a warming planet
The risks of global warming are pressing and potentially vast. The difficulty of doing without fossil fuels is daunting, possibly even insurmountable. So there is an urgent need to rethink our responses to the crisis. To meet that need, 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, the cultivation of photosynthetic plankton, fleets of unmanned ships seeding the clouds. These are the technologies of geoengineering--and as Oliver Morton argues in this visionary book, it would be as irresponsible to ignore them as it would be foolish to see them as a simple solution to the problem.
The Planet Remade explores the history, politics, and cutting-edge science of geoengineering. Morton weighs both the promise and perils of these controversial strategies and puts them in the broadest possible context. The past century's changes to the planet--to the clouds and the soils, to the winds and the seas, to the great cycles of nitrogen and carbon--have been far more profound than most of us realize. Appreciating those changes clarifies not just the scale of what needs to be done about global warming, but also our relationship to nature.
Climate change is not just one of the twenty-first century's defining political challenges. Morton untangles the implications of our failure to meet the challenge of climate change and reintroduces the hope that we might. He addresses the deep fear that comes with seeing humans as a force of nature, and asks what it might mean--and what it might require of us--to try and use that force for good.
-- "Kirkus"
Автор: Morton Oliver, The Economist Название: The Moon: A History for the Future ISBN: 1541774329 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781541774322 Издательство: Hachette Book Group Рейтинг: Цена: 19510.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: An intimate portrait of the Earth's closest neighbor--the Moon--that explores the history and future of humankind's relationship with it Every generation has looked towards the heavens and wondered at the beauty of the Moon. Fifty years ago, a few Americans became the first to do the reverse---and Earth-bound audiences shared their view of their own planet hanging in the sky instead. In this short but wide-ranging book, Oliver Morton explores the history and future of humankind's relationship with the Moon from the earliest astronomers such as van Eyck and Galileo through the first space flights and anticipating next phase of our interaction with the Moon, as a portal and stepping stone to further space exploration. The Moon's gentle light has spoken of love and loneliness; its battered surface of death and the cosmic. For some, it is a future on which humankind has turned its back. For others, an adventure yet to begin. Advanced technologies, new ambitions and old dreams mean that men, women and robots now seem certain to return to the Moon. What will they learn there about the universe, the Earth-and themselves? And, this time, will they stay?
Автор: Morton, Sasha Название: Favourite Classics: Oliver Twist ISBN: 1783252731 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781783252732 Издательство: Little Brown Рейтинг: Цена: 6060.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
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