Burton Richter (California Stanford University)

Beyond Smoke and Mirrors

Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An insightful overview of climate change science and sustainable energy provision that assesses our options for averting potentially disastrous consequences of global warming. Written in non-technical language by a Nobel Prize-winning scientist, this second edition allows readers to form their own conclusions on sustainable energy provision and climate change.

Produktdetails

• Canto Classics
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 379
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 139mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 528g
• ISBN-13: 9781107673724
• ISBN-10: 1107673720
• Artikelnr.: 41199906

Autorenporträt

Burton Richter is the Paul Pigott Professor in the Physical Sciences, Stanford University and Director Emeritus at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. He is a Nobel Prize-winning physicist for his pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
List of units
List of conversion factors
List of abbreviations
1. Introduction
Part I. Climate: 2. Greenhouse Earth
3. Climate modelling
4. The past as proxy for the future
5. Predicting the future
Part II. Energy: 6. Taking up arms against this sea of troubles
7. How fast to move: a physicist's look at the economists
8. Energy, emissions and action
9. Fossil fuels: how much is there?
10. Electricity, emission and pricing carbon
11. Efficiency: the first priority
12. Nuclear energy
13. Renewables
14. Biofuels: is there anything there?
15. An energy summary
Part III. Policy: 16. US policy: new things, bad things, good things
17. World policy action
18. Coda
References
Index.