Beyond smoke and mirrors: climate change and energy in the 21st century
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| adam_text | Contents
Preface
page
ix
List of units
xi
List of conversion factors
xiii
List of abbreviations
xv
Introduction
1
Parti
Climate
7
Greenhouse Earth
9
Technical Note
2.1:
The science of the
greenhouse effect
13
Climate modeling
16
3.1
Introduction
16
3.2
The first climate models
16
3.3
Climate change goes big time
18
3.4
The big problem: lifecycle of greenhouse gases
20
3.5
The global carbon cycle
21
Technical Note 3.V. Other greenhouse gases
24
Technical Note
3.2:
Geoengineering
25
The past as proxy for the future
27
4.1
A short tour through
4.5
billion years
27
4.2
The past
400 000
years
28
4.3
The recent past
30
10
Predicting the future
5.1
Who does it?
5.2
How is it done?
5.3
Results
5.4
Where are we?
Partii
Energy
Taking up arms against this sea of troubles
6.1
Introduction
6.2
Energy now and in the future
Market exchange
anã
PPP
6.3
Emission targets
Technical Note
6.1:
Carbon dioxide equivalents
How fast to move: a physicist s look at the
economists
Energy, emissions, and action
8.1
Setting the stage
8.2
Sources of emissions
Energy ana greenhouse emission from fossil fuels
8.3
Reducing emissions
8.4
No silver bullets
8.5
Winners and losers
Fossil fuels
-
how much is there?
9.1
World oil reserves
9.2
World gas reserves
9.3
World coal
9.4
Conclusion
Electricity, emissions, and pricing carbon
10.1
The electricity sector
10.2
Pricing carbon emissions: carbon capture
and storage
10.3
Does what goes into storage stay there?
10.4
Summary and conclusion
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Efficiency: the first priority
11.1
Introduction
Primary and end-use energy effitiency
11.2
Transportation
11.3
Buildings
11.4
Conclusion
Technical Note
11.1:
CAFE standards
12
Nuclear energy
12.1
Introduction
12.2
Radiation
12.3
Safety
12.4
Spent fuel: love it or hate it, we have it
12.5
Economics
12.6
Proliferation of nuclear weapons
12.7
Nuclear power as part of the solution
Technical Note
12.1:
Nuclear power primer
Technical Note
12.2:
France s long-range nuclear
development plan
Technical Note
12.3:
Producing material for weapons
Technical Note
12.4:
Extract from the Treaty on the
Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
Technical Note
12.5:
Issues in internationalizing the
fuel cycle
13
Renewables
13.1
Introduction
13.2
Wind
13.3
Solar energy
13.4
Geothermal
13.5
Hydropower
13.6
Ocean energy
13.7
The electric power distribution grid
Technical Note
13.1:
Photovoltaic cells
14
Biofuels: is there anything there?
14.1
Introduction
14.2
Phase-1:
ethanol
from starch and sugar
14.3
Phase-2: cellulosic
ethanol
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14.4
Phase-3: other processes
181
14.5
Summary
182
15
An energy summary
184
Partili
Policy
193
16
US policy
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new things, bad things, good things
195
16.1
Introduction
195
16.2
Reducing emissions on a national scale
196
16.3
Bad things
200
16.4
Good things
204
17
World policy actions
207
17.1
Introduction
207
17.2
Kyoto-1: the Protocol of
1997 208
17.3
Kyoto-2
211
18
Coda
217
References
219
Index
222
Beyond Smoke and Mirrors
Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century
What are the practical options for addressing global climate change?
How do we provide sustainable energy and electricity for a rapidly
growing world population?
Which energy provision options are good, bad, and indifferent?
One of the most important issues facing humanity today is the prospect
of global climate change, brought about primarily by our prolific energy use and
heavy dependence on fossil fuels. Continuing on our present course using the
present mix of fuels as the world economy and population grow will lead to very
serious consequences. There are many claims and counterclaims about what to
do to avert such potentially dire consequences. This has generated a fog of truths,
half-truths, and exaggerations, and many people are understandably confused
about these issues. The aim of this book is to help dispel the fog, and allow
citizens to come to their own conclusions concerning the best options to avert
dangerous climate change by switching to more sustainable energy provision.
The book begins with a composed and balanced discussion of the basics
of climate change: what we know, how we know it, what the uncertainties
are, and what causes it. There is no doubt that global warming is real; the
question is how bad we will allow things to get. The main part of the book
discusses how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and limit the global
temperature rise, including what the upper limit on greenhouse gases should
be, how fast we should go to cut emissions, and all of the energy options
being advocated to reduce those emissions. The many sensible, senseless, and
self-serving proposals are assessed.
Beyond Smoke and Mirrors provides an accessible and concise overview
of climate change science and current energy demand and supply patterns.
It presents a balanced view of how our heavy reliance on fossil fuels can be
changed over time so that we have a much more sustainable energy system
going forward into the twenty-first century and beyond. The book is written in
a non-technical style so that it is accessible to a wide range of readers without
scientific backgrounds: students, policymakers, and the concerned citizen.
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