Managing Global Warming

Managing Global Warming: An Interface of Technology and Human Issues discusses the causes of global warming, the options available to solve global warming problems, and how each option can be realistically implemented. It is the first book based on scientific content that presents an overall reference on both global warming and its solutions in one volume. Containing authoritative chapters written by scientists and engineers working in the field, each chapter includes the very latest research and references on the potential impact of wind, solar, hydro, geo-engineering and other energy technologies on climate change.

With this wide ranging set of topics and solutions, engineers, professors, leaders and policymakers will find this to be a valuable handbook for their research and work.

• Presents chapters that are accompanied by an easy reference summary
• Includes up-to-date options and technical solutions for global warming through color imagery
• Provides up-to-date information as presented by a collection of renowned global experts

Energy engineers, researchers, graduate students, professors and lecturers in Engineering, scientists and engineers working in energy, industrialists and engineers working in future energy developments

A INTRODUCTION
1. Why do we have global warming?
Professor T M Letcher
2. Greenhouse Gas Removal, the Numbers Involved
Dr. Robert Chris
3. The Present Status of Electricity Generation in the World; how important it is, which industrial methods of electricity generation world uses, how efficient they are, how they interact in an electrical grid.
Professor Igor Pioro

B REDUCING CO2: FOSSIL FUELS, NUCLEAR ENERGY
4. The Future of Fossil Fuels
Trevor M Letcher
5. Nuclear Fission
Professor Igor Pioro
6. Nuclear Fusion: what of the Future?
Dr Richard Kembleton,

C REDUCING GREENHOUSE GASES: RENEWABLES and ZERO CARBON/ CARBON NEUTRAL FORMS OF ENERGY and ELECTRIC CARS
7. The Potential of Renewable Energies
Professor Patrick Moriarty and Professor Damon Honnery,
8. Hydropower
Professor Ånund Killingtveit
9. Solar Energy
Dr Lee Phillips
10. Wind
Professor Subhamony Bhattacharya
11. Energy Infrastructure and Storage
Professor Gareth Harrison
12. Biomass
Professor Mirjam Roeder
13. Biomass: Quantifying the Effects of Forest-Based Energy
Professor Annette Cowie
14. Hydrogen Fuel, Fuel Cells and methane
Dr Johannes Lindorfer
15. Ground Source Heat Pumps
Professor Subhamony Bhattacharya
16. Carbon Sequestration
Professor Subhamony Bhattacharya,

D REDUCING CO2: INDUSTRY, FARMING and IMPROVED EFFICIENCY

1. Plant Derived Chemicals including Plastics as a way of Reducing GHG Pollution

Professor Janet L Scott,

 

2. Reduce CO2 Pollution by Investing in CO2 as a Chemical Feedstock (CH4?)

Professor Peter Styring,

 

3. Greener farming: managing carbon and nitrogen cycles to reduce GHG emissions

Professor Nic Lampkin and Dr Laurence Smith,

E GEO-ENGINEERING

4. Geo-engineering (sunlight reflection methods (SRM); negative emissions technologies (NET) and greenhouse gas removal (GGR))

Dr Renaud de Richter,

F ENVIRONMENTAL and HUMAN ISSUES

5. Ethics of Geo-engineering:

Clare Heyward,

6. Economics of Climate Change and Global Warming

Professor Peter Howard,

7. Migration and Climate Change

Dr Andreas C Simonelli,

8. Social Justice in Climate Change

Ms Alice Venn,

 

9. Economics of Geo-engineering

Professor Juan B Moreno Cruz,

10. Justice in Managing Climate Change

Professor Ivo Wallimann-Helmer,

11. Local Actions and Personal Actions:

Dr Phil Ireland,