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An edition of Climate of uncertainty (2010)

Climate of uncertainty

a balanced look at global warming and renewable energy

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"Examines the major questions of today: global warming, renewable energy, expanding populations, and sustainability. Without taking sides, presents factual information in a clear and accessible manner"--Provided by publisher.

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Ocean Pub., Ocean Publishing
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English

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Sustainability, Global warming, Renewable energy sources

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Climate of uncertainty: a balanced look at global warming and renewable energy
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Table of Contents

keys to unlocking the mysteries of climate change
The basics of climate change
Feedback loops (nature's risk amplifiers)
El nino, volcanoes, and global dimming (the climate change wildcards)
Future manifestitations of global warming (the potential costs of inaction)
Climate change skeptics (scientific champions or modern-day charlatans?)
Population and sustainability (smaller footprints/more feet)
Governments step in
except when they don't (solving the "problem of the commons")
Peak oil (global warming's evil twin)
Glimpsing a sustainable future (terawatts, electric vehicles, and the smart grid)
Nuclear power and clean coal (bridges to a sustainable future)
Renewable options : electricity (reading the menu at the last chance saloon)
Renewable options : transportation (biofuels and hydrogen)
Picking the least-flawed alternatives (reaching into a barrel of snakes).

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Flagler Beach, FL

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Dewey Decimal Class
363.738/74
Library of Congress
QC981.8.G56 S78 2010, QC981.8.G56 S78 2010, QC981.8.G56S78 2010

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Pagination
p. cm.

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OL23954500M
Internet Archive
climateofuncerta0000stew
ISBN 13
9780976729167
LCCN
2009049590
OCLC/WorldCat
471237551

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