EAN: 9783319361826

THE ENERGY-CLIMATE CONTINUUM - ANTOINE BRET KAR...

This book puts the debates about the energy-climate continuum on a scientific ground! It is a
must-read for everyone  who wants to understand how intimately the energy and climate debates
are linked to each other  and who wants to participate in these omnipresent discussions.
Antoine Bret explains in his book how fossil fuels became indispensable for our society. He
carefully explains how and why this impacts the earth's climate. And he points out that all
available fossil fuels will sooner or later be used up. Therefore  he introduces and discusses
the alternatives  which are currently considered. The book is divided into three parts. The
first part explains the problem and where we stand today  the second part critically discusses
possible elements of solution. The third part illustrates historic case studies  containing
both warning as well as encouraging examples of societies at turning points. This book is a
careful introduction to these topics. The basic science behind the problem and the debates are
introduced in an understandable and nicely readable fashion. Facts are illustrated with simple
back-on-the-envelope calculations  providing a good feeling for orders of magnitudes. A rich
appendix provides additional background information for the interested readers. In this way 
the book can even be a valuable resource for introductory university courses in physics 
climate science  natural science and many more subjects. This book is a real conversation
starter and can be recommended to everyone  specialist or non-specialist  who wants to
understand the actual energy-climate debates and maybe even involve.

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