Energy and Climate Change An Introduction to Geological Controls, Interventions and Mitigations
Auteur : Stephenson Michael
Energy and Climate Change: An Introduction to Geological Controls, Interventions and Mitigations examines the Earth system science context of the formation and use of fossil fuel resources, and the implications for climate change. It also examines the historical and economic trends of fossil fuel usage and the ways in which these have begun to affect the natural system (i.e., the start of the Anthropocene). Finally, the book examines the effects we might expect in the future looking at evidence from the "deep time" past, and looks at ways to mitigate climate change by using negative emissions technology (e.g. bioenergy and carbon capture and storage, BECCS), but also by adapting to perhaps a higher than "two degree world," particularly in the most vulnerable, developing countries. Energy and Climate Change is an essential resource for geoscientists, climate scientists, environmental scientists, and students; as well as policy makers, energy professionals, energy statisticians, energy historians and economists.
1. The carbon cycle, fossil fuels and climate change2. Natural global warming: climate change in "deep time"3. Artificial global warming: the "fossil economy"4. The coming industrial revolution? Fossil fuels and developing countries5. Geology and the reduction of emissions6. Climate change adaptation: geological aspects7. Feedbacks and tipping points8. The geological macroscope9. Energy and climate change: geological controls, interventions and mitigations
Primary Audience: Geologists – interested in resource generation and resource limits, from an earth system science perspective.
Climate scientists - interested in carbon cycle links between resource usage and climate change, and ancient geological (‘deep time’) climate change.
Environmental scientists – interested in the earth system science context of energy and climate change.
Secondary audience: This book will also be useful to students, policy makers, energy professionals, people interested in the Anthropocene, and energy statisticians, energy historians and economists.
- Provides an overarching narrative linking Earth system science with an integrated approach to energy and climate change
- Includes a unique breadth of coverage from modern to "deep time" climate change; from resource geology to economics; from climate change mitigation to adaptation; and from the industrial revolution to the Anthropocene
- Readable, accessible, and well-illustrated, giving the reader a clear overview of the topic
Date de parution : 03-2018
Ouvrage de 206 p.
15x22.8 cm
Thèmes d’Energy and Climate Change :
Mots-clés :
Anthropocene Epoch; Atmospheric CO2; Bioenergy and carbon capture and storageBECCS; Biogeochemical cycle; Carbon capture and storage (CCS); Carbon capture and storage; CCS; Carbon cycle; Carbon sequestration; Climate change; Climate change adaptation; Climate change interventions; Climate change mitigation; Climate change modelling; Compressed air energy storage; CAES; Critical zone observatories (CZO); Deep time; Earth system science; Energy Information Administration; Energy transitions; Food-water-energy nexus; Fossil economy; fossil fuel combustion; Fossil fuel consumption; Fossil fuel demand; fossil fuel formation; Geological carbon cycle; Geological interventions in climate change; Geological macroscope; Geological monitoring; Geological sequestration; Geological subsurface; Geology and climate change; Great Acceleration; Groundwater storage; History of fossil fuel use; Hydrogeology; International Energy Agency; Internet of things; LIDAR; Natural global warming; Net negative emissions; Palaeocene-Eocene thermal maximum; Permian-Triassic; PETM; Renewables economy; Subsurface monitoring; Teleological feedback; United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; Younger Dryas