Global Warming, A Very Peculiar History电子书

Cover

Front Matter

Title Page

Publisher Information

Dedication

Global Warming

Quotes

Introduction

Weather

Climate

Earth cycles

Global warming

A warmer Earth

Fact Box

Fossil fuels

Coal

Oil and gas

Sea coal

Ancient oil wells

Who discovered global warming?

Human activities

Gas trap

Victorian gas

Choking smog

Fact Box

The curious case of the peppered moth

Windy cows

Earth’s climate in the past

The Little Ice Age

Frost fairs

CHAPTER ONE: Isn’t Warmer Better?

Sea level

Agriculture

Effects on wildlife

Grolar bears

Effects on people

Fact Box

CHAPTER TWO: How bad will it be?

Counting the cost

Coping with sea level rise

Top Ten at risk

Protecting The Netherlands

Building the barrier

The boy who saved Holland... or did he?

That sinking feeling

Fact Box

Could warmer mean colder?

The strange case of global dimming

Mass extinctions

Blame the Traps

Death by climate change

So what did happen?

Mass extinction 6?

CHAPTER THREE: How Fast Will It Happen?

Flip-flop climate

Why bother?

Robotic scalpel

Mega flood

Hidden danger

The climate gun

New fuel?

CHAPTER FOUR: Show Me Evidence

The JASON report

What’s happening today?

The Thames Barrier

The Maldives

How do we know the Earth really is warming?

The Spanish children

CHAPTER FIVE: Who Produces The Pollution?

Fact Box

What’s that you say, Skippy?

Where does the carbon dioxide come from?

Coal facts

CHAPTER SIX: Are Scientists Right?

Dodgy scientific theories of the past

Climate mistakes

Hothouse or ice-house?

Vanishing glaciers

What do people who don’t believe in the current theory of climate change say?

CHAPTER SEVEN: WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT? PART 1

Cutting Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Make fossil fuels less damaging

Carbon trading

Carbon offsetting

Green taxes

Create new crops for a warmer world

Reduce greenhouse gas emissions in agriculture

Reduce forest clearance

Forest facts

Capturing carbon

CHAPTER EIGHT: WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT? PART 2

Renewable Energy Sources

Wind energy

Fact Box

Wave energy

Sea snakes

Tidal energy

Hydroelectricity

La Rance Tidal Powerplant

Fact Box

Biomass

Fact Box

Geothermal energy

Solar energy

Fact Box

Nevada Solar One

Fact Box

Electric cars

Nuclear energy

Fact Box

Nuclear accidents

Fact Box

What can you do?

New bulbs

Fact Box

Saving energy

Fact Box

CHAPTER NINE: Future Fixes

Energy efficient buildings

The Pearl River Tower

Artificial trees

Making electricity from roads!

Ironing the oceans

Dusting the atmosphere

Masdar

Nuclear fusion

JET power

Laser research

CHAPTER TEN: What Are Governments Doing?

Stockholm Conference

Rio Earth Summit

The Kyoto Protocol

How much do we have to do to get out of trouble?

Copenhagen Climate Conference

Taking advice

The IPCC’s reports

Global Warming Timeline

Glossary

End matter

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