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Behind the Curve
Science and the Politics of Global Warming
von Joshua P Howe
Verlag: University of Washington Press
Reihe: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Boo
Taschenbuch
ISBN: 978-0-295-99560-1
Erschienen am 01.03.2016
Sprache: Englisch
Format: 218 mm [H] x 140 mm [B] x 23 mm [T]
Gewicht: 408 Gramm
Umfang: 312 Seiten

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Klappentext
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Biografische Anmerkung

In 1958, Charles David Keeling began measuring the concentration of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. His project kicked off a half century of research that has expanded our knowledge of climate change. Despite more than fifty years of research, however, our global society has yet to find real solutions to the problem of global warming. Why?
In Behind the Curve, Joshua Howe attempts to answer this question. He explores the history of global warming from its roots as a scientific curiosity to its place at the center of international environmental politics. The book follows the story of rising CO2-illustrated by the now famous Keeling Curve-through a number of historical contexts, highlighting the relationships among scientists, environmentalists, and politicians as those relationships changed over time.
The nature of the problem itself, Howe explains, has privileged scientists as the primary spokespeople for the global climate. But while the "science first" forms of advocacy they developed to fight global warming produced more and better science, the primacy of science in global warming politics has failed to produce meaningful results. In fact, an often exclusive focus on science has left advocates for change vulnerable to political opposition and has limited much of the discussion to debates about the science itself.
As a result, while we know much more about global warming than we did fifty years ago, CO2 continues to rise. In 1958, Keeling first measured CO2 at around 315 parts per million; by 2013, global CO2 had soared to 400 ppm. The problem is not getting better - it's getting worse. Behind the Curve offers a critical and levelheaded look at how we got here.



Foreword by William Cronon
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. The Cold War Roots of Global Warming
2. Scientists, Environmentalists, and the Global Atmosphere
3. Making the Global Environment
4. Climate, the Environment, and Scientific Activism
5. The Politics of Dissent
6. The IPCC and the Primacy of Science
7. The Gospel of the Market
Epilogue
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index



Joshua P. Howe is associate professor history and environmental studies at Reed College. He is author of Behind the Curve: Science and the Politics of Global Warming (University of Washington Press, 2014) and editor of Making Climate Change History: Documents from Global Warming's Past (University of Washington Press, 2017).


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