Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 256 pages)
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illustrations, maps
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0231137109
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0231510373
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9780231137102
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9780231510370
Inhalt:
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 century alone, it could create a global cataclysm. Synthesizing information from leading scientists and the most up-to-date research, science journalist William Sweet examines what the United States can do to help prevent climate devastation. Rather than focusing on cutting oil consumptio
Inhalt:
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
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-239) and index
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In English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780231137119
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0231137117
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Sweet, William Kicking the carbon habit New York : Columbia University Press, ©2006
Sprache:
Englisch
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