Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century

ISBN: 9781107673724 出版年：2014 页码：382 Burton Richter Cambridge University Press

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.