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Julia Schubert investigates how deliberate intervention in the Earth’s climate became a subject of scientific and political discussion. The book follows climate engineering as a contested idea, asking how proposals once regarded as undesirable came to occupy a place on policy agendas.
The analysis connects changing scientific knowledge with institutions, arguments about crisis and different visions of control. It follows the ways researchers and policy participants have defined the problem, assessed proposed interventions and described the uncertainties surrounding them.
Rather than serving as an engineering manual, the book studies the development of a field and its public significance. Its historical and sociological approach gives readers a way to examine the relationship between technological proposals, scientific authority and the organization of political choices.