Kicking the carbon habit : global warming and the case for renewable and nuclear energy / William Sweet.

With glaciers melting, oceans growing more acidic, species dying out, and catastrophic events like Hurricane Katrina ever more probable, strong steps must be taken now to slow global warming. Further warming threatens entire regional economies and the well being of whole populations, and in this cen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Sweet, William, 1946-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Columbia University Press, ©2006.
Subjects:	Renewable energy sources. Power resources. Global warming. energy resources. global warming. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Power Resources > Alternative & Renewable. POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Environmental Policy. Changement climatique. Energies renouvelables. Sources d'énergie. Dioxyde de carbone. Contrôle d'émission. Global warming Power resources Renewable energy sources Förnybara energikällor. Växthuseffekten. Energy resources. Etats-Unis d'Amérique. Asie centrale.
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Table of Contents:

1. The case for sharply cutting U.S. greenhouse gas emissions
Part I. Coal: a Faustian bargain with payments coming due: 2. The basis of it all Pennsylvania in the Pennsylvanian
3. The air we breathe: the human costs of coal combustion
4. From outer space: Asia's brown cloud, and more
Part II. Climate: the lockstep relationship between carbon dioxide and temperature: 5. The drillers
6. The modellers
7. The synthesizers
Part III. Choices: the low-carbon and zero-carbon technologies we can deploy right now: 8. Breaking the carbon habit
9. Going all out for renewables, conservation, and green design
10. Natural gas, gasoline, and the vision of a hydrogen economy
11. A second look at nuclear energy
Conclusion: How to reduce greenhouse gases now, using today's technology.

Kicking the carbon habit : global warming and the case for renewable and nuclear energy / William Sweet.

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