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Energy and climate change : an introduction to geological controls, interventions and mitigations /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stephenson, Michael H. (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, MA : Elsevier, 2018.
Subjects:
Power resources > Environmental aspects.
Climatic changes.
Climatic changes > Effect of human beings on.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. The Carbon Cycle, Fossil Fuels and Climate Change
  • The Carbon Cycle
  • How Fossil Fuels are Formed
  • Carbonate Rocks
  • How Fossil Fuel Formation and Combustion Change Climate
  • Summary
  • Bibliography
  • 2. Natural Global Warming: Climate Change in `Deep Time'
  • The Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum
  • The Permian-Triassic Extinction
  • The Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction
  • The End of the Younger Dryas
  • Summary
  • Bibliography
  • 3. Artificial Global Warming: The `Fossil Economy'
  • The `Fossil Economy': Britain and the Industrial Revolution
  • Early Atmospheric Effects of the Large-Scale Take-Up of Coal
  • The Growth of Oil
  • The Growth of Gas
  • Effects of the Take-Up of Oil, and Then Gas, on Global Emissions
  • Oil, Gas, and Coal Resource and Reserve, and `Unburnable' Carbon
  • The Transition of Energy Systems
  • Summary
  • Bibliography
  • 4. The Coming Industrial Revolution? Fossil Fuels and Developing Countries.
  • Note continued: Where are the Resources and Reserves?
  • Use of These Fossil-Fuel Resources in the Future
  • Can the Developing World `Leap-Frog' Fossil Fuels?
  • The `Paris Agreement' and the Two-Degree World'
  • Summary
  • Bibliography
  • 5. Geology and the Reduction of Emissions
  • The Geological Principles of Carbon Capture and Storage
  • Bioenergy With Carbon Capture and Storage
  • Indirect Ways that Geological Materials Contribute to Low Carbon
  • Summary
  • Bibliography
  • 6. Climate Change Adaptation: Geological Aspects
  • Modelling and Climate Change
  • Climate Change and Groundwater
  • The Food-Water-Energy Nexus
  • Urban Drainage and Climate Change
  • Summary
  • Bibliography
  • 7. Feedbacks and Tipping Points
  • Tipping Points and Feedbacks in Human Economic and Cultural Change
  • Teleological Feedback
  • Summary
  • Bibliography
  • 8. The Geological Macroscope
  • Macroscope in the Redwoods
  • Monitoring in Meteorology and Oceanography.
  • Note continued: Monitoring in Seismology and Volcanology
  • Critical Zone Observatories
  • Citizen Science and the `Internet of Things'
  • Reasons to Measure and Monitor the Subsurface Beyond Earthquakes and Volcanoes
  • Environmental Baseline Surveys
  • Summary
  • Bibliography
  • 9. Energy and Climate Change: Geological Controls, Interventions, and Mitigations.