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Climate change seems to be an insurmountable problem. Political solutions have so far had little impact. Some scientists are now advocating the so-called ‘Plan B’, a more direct way of reducing the rate of future warming by reflecting more sunlight back to space, creating a thermostat in the sky. In this book, Mike Hulme argues against this kind of hubristic techno-fix. Drawing upon a distinguished career studying the science, politics and ethics of climate change, he shows why using science to fix the global climate is undesirable, ungovernable and unattainable. Science and technology should instead serve the more pragmatic goals of increasing societal resilience to weather risks, improving regional air quality and driving forward an energy technology transition. Seeking to reset the planet’s thermostat is not the answer. Climate change seems to be an insurmountable problem. Political solutions have so far had little impact. Some scientists are now advocating the so-called ‘Plan B’, a more direct way of reducing the rate of future warming by reflecting more sunlight back to space, creating a thermostat in the sky. In this book, Mike Hulme argues against this kind of hubristic techno-fix. Drawing upon a distinguished career studying the science, politics and ethics of climate change, he shows why using science to fix the global climate is undesirable, ungovernable and unattainable. Science and technology should instead serve the more pragmatic goals of increasing societal resilience to weather risks, improving regional air quality and driving forward an energy technology transition. Seeking to reset the planet’s thermostat is not the answer.
- Sales Rank: #900377 in Books
- Published on: 2014-06-03
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.50" h x .62" w x 5.00" l, .32 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 144 pages
Review
"A very clear read and a good introduction to an extremely important topic."
Morning Star
"Mike Hulme eloquently and rationally outlines the arguments against proposals to use stratospheric aerosols to cool the planet and questions the ethics of even researching them. Regardless of whether one agrees with his conclusions, there is no doubt that he definitively makes the case that must be answered by proponents."
Steve Rayner, Oxford University
"In this slim volume, Mike Hulme takes aim at the proposal to fix the climate problem with a single engineering solution. He calls for a science that is more attentive to human ends, that serves humanity rather than seeking to rule it. This plea for humility from a world expert on climate change deserves close reading by anyone concerned with the fate of the planet."
Sheila Jasanoff, Harvard University
"Few people talk as intelligently and compassionately about climate change as Mike Hulme. He is a rare voice of sanity and humility in an increasingly rancorous and megalomaniac debate."
Fred Pearce, science writer and journalist
About the Author
Mike Hulme is Professor of Climate and Culture in the Department of Geography at King’s College London. His 2009 Why We Disagree about Climate Change won The Economist’s ‘Book of the Year Award’. He has contributed to public debates in the UK and US, writing for The Guardian and the Wall Street Journal. From 2000 to 2007 he was the Founding Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Cogent Argument Against the Folly of Geo-Engineering.
By mirasreviews
In "Can Science Fix Climate Change?", Mike Hulme, Professor of Climate and Culture at King's College London, makes a case against geo-engineering to mitigate the effects of climate change, particularly against stratospheric aerosol injection, a theoretical technology that has been much-discussed in recent years. He asserts that geo-engineering is "an idea that seeks an illusory solution to the wrong problem." To set the stage for his argument, Hulme explains the state of the politics surrounding climate change over the past two decades: 1.) between 1998 and 2012 global surface temperature only increased at a rate of 0.4ºC per century, 2.) public awareness of climate change is now nearly global, 3.) global diplomacy and minor changes in human behavior have failed to significantly reduce global emissions of greenhouse gases, and 4.) science has begun to propose direct intervention into climate as an alternative.
Hulme's first chapter explains, briefly, eight different geo-engineering technologies that have been proposed "to manipulate the atmosphere's mediating role in the planetary heat budget." Four of these involve removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Four are sunlight reflection methods (SRMs), including stratospheric aerosol injection, which Hulme believes to be the most dangerous. Notably, Hulme calls for careful examination of the rhetoric being use to justify geo-engineering, including the concept of a "climate emergency." Chapter 2 argues that "global temperature is grossly misleading as a index of the state of climate-human relations," because it does not reflect regional climate systems. Weather patterns matter, not global temperature index. Computer simulations of stratospheric aerosol injection have shown that, if weather is improved in one region, it's made worse in another.
Chapter 3 asks how research in geo-engineering technologies and deployment, if it came to that, should be governed and comes to the conclusion that, in practical terms, "a planetary thermostat in the atmosphere would be ungovernable." Hulme looks at the ethics and dangers of attempting to test stratospheric aerosol injection in Chapter 4. As the only way to test such a technology would be to deploy it, Hulme argues forcefully against research and testing. In the concluding chapter, Hulme proposes an alternative: "climate pragmatism." Climate pragmatists believe that climate change is not a single problem but three: weather risks, air quality, and the need for a cheap, reliable, clean source(s) of energy. Geo-engineering solves none of the above problems, even if it could limit global warming to no more than 2ºC, the goal that climate conventions have heretofore pursued.
Before reading "Can Science Fix Climate Change?", I wasn't aware that geo-engineering was taken seriously. It strikes me as something conjured up to attract research grants, to be abandoned when a bigger and better money magnet comes along. I'm curious to know how much money has been dedicated to geo-engineering research in the United States, but it's difficult to believe that anyone would actually want to use the technologies, especially stratospheric aerosol injection, which could wreak havoc with the weather in some parts of the world. Hulme argues directly against stratospheric aerosol injection and more obliquely against geo-engineering in general. He states his case clearly enough, though the book is repetitive at times. This is a slim volume and well worth the short time it takes to read, so you'll know something about geo-engineering before it turns up on the floor of Congress or in a State of the Union address.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Mis-titled invective against would-be climate engineers
By Steve Benner
Mike Hulme is Professor of Climate and Culture at King's College London, UK, and founder of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. His latest book on climate change, "Can Science Fix Climate Change?", is a relatively slim volume (150 pages + index) laying out the arguments against climate engineering through deliberate atmospheric modification, particularly through the use of stratospheric injection technologies or other methodologies for implementing a so-called planetary thermostat. The first four chapters of the book present cogently argued reasons why it is unethical, reckless and pointless even to research such technologies, let alone contemplate their deployment. The fifth (and final) chapter wraps up the subject by giving some pointers as to how scientific and engineering endeavours might be better focused by reframing the entire question of managing climate change by concentrating on pragmatic goals more attuned to serving the (global) public good.
As an invective against the hubristic and megalomaniacal techno-fix that climate engineering undoubtedly is, the book works well. Where it fails, however, is as a balanced overview of the contributions that science can make to an understanding of the issues that societies generally need to tackle around climate change. Throughout the book, the author generally tars all scientists with the same brush, appearing unable to recognise that whilst would-be climate engineers all operate within the scientific community this does not mean that all scientists are would-be climate engineers or even that they must inevitably be in favour of an engineered approach to climate change avoidance. In reality, of course, the number of advocates for climate engineering in general represents only a small minority of the world's climate scientists, whilst those who openly advocate or pursue research into stratospheric modification -- the geoclique, as Mike Hulme brands them -- is an even smaller group (albeit it one with a disturbing disproportionate degree of influence on the policy making of powerful Western governments).
The author does a good job of keeping his text non-specialist in its subject matter. Most readers will, I suspect, find that the is text overly repetitive in places, with many of the author's points being heavily laboured. That said, however, the book should prove an interesting read for anyone interested in knowing the ins and outs of why climate engineering is such an incredibly stupid idea, regardless of whether climate change is real, or even anthropogenic in nature. Anyone actually interested in finding an answer to the question posed in the book's title will, sadly, need to read more widely.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Informative, engaging and a bit alarming
By AmazonJavaJunki
Apparently I'm in the minority but I found this book to be informative, engaging and downright alarming. Now, to be very precise...climate change and geo engineering are topics I have zero expertise with so far from being any type of expert, my level of interest is solely as a lay person. I know enough to realize that I'm not qualified to have an opinion about the topic but like many others, have a strong curiosity as well as ample questions. It is because of the questions I opted to review this book.
As others have mentioned, the author does "take sides"...frankly, it may have been more balanced if time had been spent going over more of the pro's and con's rather than only the negatives but it seems that the author believes the science is premature and has little to no other viable options. Whether this is in fact, the case...I'm not able to ascertain. On the other hand, the warnings and predictions provided by the author certainly give one pause for concern...not necessarily because of the clear and present danger but rather than lack of reliable data and potentially dire consequences related to moving forward with something we (as a society) barely understand.
Overall, I found the book thought provoking, readable and engaging if not a bit alarming. It is not a doomsday, all is lost, woe is me type of book (for that I'm grateful) but rather a clear, concise and easily read manifest on what we do not know. As such, well worth the time to read.
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