The Planet Remade by Morton, Oliver -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Page Contents Introduction: Two Questions

Climate Risks and Responsibilities The Second Fossil-Fuel Century Altering the Earthsystem Deliberate Planets, Imagined Worlds

Part One: Energies

1 The Top of the World

Discovering the Stratosphere Fallout The Ozone Layer The Veilmakers

2 A Planet Called Weather

The Worldfalls The Trenberth Diagram and Climate Science Steam Engines and Spaceship Earth

3 Pinatubo

Volcanoes and Climate Predictions and Surprises

4 Dimming the Noontime Sun

Rough Magic Promethean Science

5 Coming to Think This Way

Martians and Moral Equivalents The Day Before Yesterday The Rise of Carbon Dioxide Politics

6 Moving the Goalposts

From Plan B to Breathing Space Expanding the Boundaries

Part Two: Substances

7 Nitrogen

The Making of the Population Bomb Defusing the Population Bomb Far from Fixed How to Spot a Geoengineer

8 Carbon Past, Carbon Present

The Anthropocene The Greening Planet

9 Carbon Present, Carbon Future

Ocean Anaemia Cultivating One’s Garden

10 Sulphur and Soggy Mirrors

Global Cooling Cloudships Bright Patchwork Planet What the Thunder Didn’t Say

Part Three: Possibilities

11 The Ends of the World

Control and Catastrophe Doom and Denial The Traditions of Titans A Tale of Two Cliques After Such Knowledge

12 The Deliberate Planet

The Concert Small Effects, and Bad Ones And Straight on ‘til Morning Envoi

Acknowledgements References, Notes and Further Reading Bibliography Index