Challenged by carbon : the oil industry and climate change /

Is there a low-carbon future for the oil industry? Faced with compelling new geological evidence, the petroleum industry can no longer ignore the consequences of climate change brought on by consumption of its products. Yet the global community will continue to burn fossil fuels as we manage the tra...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lovell, Bryan
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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Table of Contents:
  • Geologists on the road to Kyoto
  • A crucial message from 55 million years ago
  • An Atlantic divide in big oil
  • What is the oil industry supposed to do?
  • The size of the problem and the scale of the answer
  • Safe storage: from villain to hero
  • Taking it a decade at a time
  • The proof in the puddingstone.