Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword by Anthony F. Earley Jr.
- Foreword by G.P. “Bud” Peterson
- Foreword by Arun Majumdar
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1 Energy, economics, and climate change
- 2 The Earth's climate system
- 3 Greenhouse gases
- 4 Global warming
- 5 Consequences of global warming
- 6 Mitigation, adaptation, and geoengineering
- 7 Public policy options
- 8 The politics of global warming: a history lesson and future prospects
- 9 Dissenting opinions: the great hoax
- 10 The ethics of climate change
- 11 A way forward
- Appendix A Units and conversion factors
- Appendix B Fossil fuels
- Appendix C Anthropogenic sources of natural gas and methane
- Appendix D Environmental time scales and inertia
- Appendix E Coal-fired power plants: operating conditions and costs of carbon capture and sequestration
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Plate section
Appendix A - Units and conversion factors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2015
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword by Anthony F. Earley Jr.
- Foreword by G.P. “Bud” Peterson
- Foreword by Arun Majumdar
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1 Energy, economics, and climate change
- 2 The Earth's climate system
- 3 Greenhouse gases
- 4 Global warming
- 5 Consequences of global warming
- 6 Mitigation, adaptation, and geoengineering
- 7 Public policy options
- 8 The politics of global warming: a history lesson and future prospects
- 9 Dissenting opinions: the great hoax
- 10 The ethics of climate change
- 11 A way forward
- Appendix A Units and conversion factors
- Appendix B Fossil fuels
- Appendix C Anthropogenic sources of natural gas and methane
- Appendix D Environmental time scales and inertia
- Appendix E Coal-fired power plants: operating conditions and costs of carbon capture and sequestration
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Plate section
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Climate Change: A Wicked ProblemComplexity and Uncertainty at the Intersection of Science, Economics, Politics, and Human Behavior, pp. 259 - 260Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015