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What Will Work

Author : Kristin Shrader-Frechette
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0199794634
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book What Will Work written by Kristin Shrader-Frechette and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2011-12-12 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Will Work makes a rigorous and compelling case that energy efficiencies and renewable energy-and not nuclear fission or "clean coal"-are the most effective, cheapest, and equitable solutions to the pressing problem of climate change. Kristin Shrader-Frechette, a respected environmental ethicist and scientist, makes a damning case that the only reason that debate about climate change continues is because fossil-fuel interests pay non-experts to confuse the public. She then builds a comprehensive case against the argument made by many that nuclear fission is a viable solution to the problem, arguing that data on the viability of nuclear power has been misrepresented by the nuclear industry and its supporters. In particular she says that they present deeply flawed cases that nuclear produces low greenhouse gas emissions, that it is financially responsible, that it is safe, and that its risks do not fall mainly on the poor and vulnerable. She argues convincingly that these are all completely false assumptions. Shrader-Frechette then shows that energy efficiency and renewable solutions meet all these requirements - in particular affordability, safety, and equitability. In the end, the cheapest, lowest-carbon, most-sustainable energy solutions also happen to be the most ethical. This urgent book on the most pressing issue of our time will be of interest to anyone involved in environmental and energy policy. "An extraordinary achievement by a philosopher-scientist and public intellectual. The book is unmatched in its synthesis of the empirical data, theory and ethics that infuse the climate-change debates. Its overpowering but transparent argument should be mandatory reading for every elected official. Shrader-Frechette takes practical logic and scientific transparency to new heights. The best book written in the last decade on climate change." - Sheldon Krimsky, Tufts University "Shrader-Frechette's book is outstanding. She makes a thorough review of the scientific evidence on nuclear health risks, and also explains the political and economic forces affecting public policy. Very readable for scientists, policy makers, and the public." - Joseph J. Mangano, Radiation and Public Health Project, New York "Fascinating and important! Shrader-Frechette presents the scientific, economic, and ethical evidence for the failure of nuclear power -- it is neither carbon-free nor a viable solution to the energy crisis and global warming. While explaining the nuances of the scientific, economic and ethical arguments, the author teaches the reader why solar and wind energy, along with energy efficiency changes, will yield a safe, healthy, reliable and economically efficient energy future for the planet." - Colleen F. Moore, University of Wisconsin, author of Children and Pollution: Why Scientists Disagree

Debating Climate Change

Author : Elizabeth L Malone
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136546154
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book Debating Climate Change written by Elizabeth L Malone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated and contentious voices fill the air, the question gains urgency: How can people with widely varying viewpoints agree to address climate change? Each participant in the debate seems to have a different agenda, from protecting economic growth in developing countries to protecting the energy industry in industrialized countries, from those aghast at the damage done to the Earth to optimists who think we just need to adjust our technological approach. Debating Climate Change sorts through the tangle of arguments surrounding climate change to find paths to unexpected sites of agreement. Using an innovative sociological approach - combined discourse and social network analyses - Elizabeth L. Malone analyzes 100 documents representing a range of players in this high-stakes debate. Through this she shows how even the most implacable adversaries can find common ground - and how this common ground can be used to build agreement. Written in a clear, accessible style, this original research and insightful use of communication analysis will help advance understanding and negotiation on climate change throughout the pivotal times to come. Published with Science in Society

The Climate Crisis: A Moderate Approach to the Energy Debate

Author : Miguel Angel Rondon Segura
Publisher : MARS PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (851 download)

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Download or read book The Climate Crisis: A Moderate Approach to the Energy Debate written by Miguel Angel Rondon Segura and published by MARS PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2021-10-22 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you a climate denier or climate believer? The subject of energy and climate have become so mainstream and intertwined with politics that today’s discussion has been split into these two antagonistic buckets, leaving no middle ground. You’re boxed from the beginning! The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the United Nations body responsible for assessing the science related to climate change, and in their harshest scenario they point to temperatures raising by an average of 6 degrees Celsius by the end of the century. At the same time, the goal to limit global warming below 2 degrees Celsius was picked as a consensus figure among the scientific community. The reality is that we do not know the exact impact of exceeding this target, and we can only estimate and predict what could happen to the planet based on our interpretation of how systems respond. In this scenario, what do we do? Do we destroy the entire energy system as we know it? Do we ignore the potential problem? Or do we apply a business perspective and find solutions that allow us to maintain our lifestyles without the risk of making this planet uninhabitable? This book is about trying to bring the denier and believer sides together to analyze the energy problem from a systems and business perspective, by introducing key aspects of the energy debate, defining the problem, and presenting possible solutions. In essence: more profits, less carbon!

Contemporary Climate Change Debates

Author : Mike Hulme
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042982114X
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Climate Change Debates written by Mike Hulme and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-20 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Climate Change Debates is an innovative new textbook which tackles some of the difficult questions raised by climate change. For the complex policy challenges surrounding climate migration, adaptation and resilience, structured debates become effective learning devices for students. This book is organised around 15 important questions, and is split into four parts: What do we need to know? What should we do? On what grounds should we base our actions? Who should be the agents of change? Each debate is addressed by pairs of one or two leading or emerging academics who present opposing viewpoints. Through this format the book is designed to introduce students of climate change to different arguments prompted by these questions, and also provides a unique opportunity for them to engage in critical thinking and debate amongst themselves. Each chapter concludes with suggestions for further reading and with discussion questions for use in student classes. Drawing upon the sciences, social sciences and humanities to debate these ethical, cultural, legal, social, economic, technological and political roadblocks, Contemporary Debates on Climate Change is essential reading for all students of climate change, as well as those studying environmental policy and politics and sustainable development more broadly.

Energizing the Climate Change Debate

Author : Roger Gibbins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (464 download)

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Globalising the Climate

Author : Stefan Aykut
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317198735
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Globalising the Climate written by Stefan Aykut and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-03-03 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frequently presented as a historic last chance to set the world on a course to prevent catastrophic climate change, the 21st Conference of the Parties to the Climate convention (COP21) was a global summit of exceptional proportions. Bringing together negotiators, scientists, journalists and representatives of global civil society, it also constituted a privileged vantage point for the study of global environmental governance "in the making". This volume offers readers an original account of the current state of play in the field of global climate governance. Building upon a collaborative research project on COP21 carried out by a multidisciplinary team of twenty academics with recognised experience in the field of environmental governance, the book takes COP21 as an entry point to analyse ongoing transformations of global climate politics, and to scrutinise the impact of climate change on global debates more generally. The book has three key objectives: To analyse global climate governance through a combination of long-term analysis and on-sight observation; To identify and analyse the key spaces of participation in the global climate debate; To examine the "climatisation" of a series of crosscutting themes, including development, energy, security and migration. This book will be of great interest to students, scholars and policymakers of climate politics and governance, international relations and environmental studies.

Cheap and Clean

Author : Stephen Ansolabehere
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262529688
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Cheap and Clean written by Stephen Ansolabehere and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-10-07 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Americans make energy choices, why they think locally (not globally), and how this can shape U.S. energy and climate change policy. How do Americans think about energy? Is the debate over fossil fuels highly partisan and ideological? Does public opinion about fossil fuels and alternative energies divide along the fault between red states and blue states? And how much do concerns about climate change weigh on their opinions? In Cheap and Clean, Stephen Ansolabehere and David Konisky show that Americans are more pragmatic than ideological in their opinions about energy alternatives, more unified than divided about their main concerns, and more local than global in their approach to energy. Drawing on extensive surveys they designed and conducted over the course of a decade (in conjunction with MIT's Energy Initiative), Ansolabehere and Konisky report that beliefs about the costs and environmental harms associated with particular fuels drive public opinions about energy. People approach energy choices as consumers, and what is most important to them is simply that energy be cheap and clean. Most of us want energy at low economic cost and with little social cost (that is, minimal health risk from pollution). The authors also find that although environmental concerns weigh heavily in people's energy preferences, these concerns are local and not global. Worries about global warming are less pressing to most than worries about their own city's smog and toxic waste. With this in mind, Ansolabehere and Konisky argue for policies that target both local pollutants and carbon emissions (the main source of global warming). The local and immediate nature of people's energy concerns can be the starting point for a new approach to energy and climate change policy.

Energizing the Climate Debate

Author : Roger Gibbins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Energizing the Climate Debate written by Roger Gibbins and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thus as the policy discussion on climate change opens up a national discussion on energy policy, Canadians will face an extraordinarily complex policy challenge given the deep basket of regional differences described above, the significant dependency of the national and regional economies on energy exports (Canada is alone among the OECD countries in being a net energy exporter), and the fact that [...] Here we need only note the impact of the 1980 National Energy Program on the country's political landscape, the inability of the Council of the Federation to agree in August 2007 to even the rough outlines of a national climate change policy response, and the warnings of former Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed about the explosive potential of a constitutional battle over federal environmental legisl [...] The political risks are particularly acute in the West, but they extend beyond the West to the rest of the federation. [...] Energy policies designed to reshape how we produce and consume energy will be compromised if we impair behavioural adjustments in some parts of the country by shifting the costs to other parts of the country. [...] When we come to the discussion of energy policies, it is essential to keep our eye on the climate change policy ball, and focus our policy initiatives where they will do the most good in meeting climate change objectives.

Climate and Energy Politics in Poland

Author : Aleksandra Lis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429515111
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Climate and Energy Politics in Poland written by Aleksandra Lis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-13 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate and Energy Politics in Poland: Debating Carbon Dioxide and Shale Gas presents a new, object-oriented perspective on the challenge faced by Poland, the largest post-socialist EU member state from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), to produce knowledge about its energy system in the context of climate change. Drawing on data from five different research projects and two hundred interviews, Lis reflects on how EU accession forced Poland to mobilize their resources and produce expertise on carbon dioxide and shale gas, in order to actively participate in the debates around EU climate change ambitions and goals. A significant lack of capacity and expert institutions made it difficult for Poland to quickly assess the impacts of EU legislation or to propose new solutions for itself, and it is precisely this struggle for knowledge production that will be examined during the course of the book. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of energy and resource politics, climate change, EU environmental policy and CEE studies more broadly.

Energy and Climate

Author : Michael B. McElroy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190490349
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Energy and Climate written by Michael B. McElroy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The climate of our planet is changing at a rate unprecedented in recent human history. The energy absorbed from the sun exceeds what is returned to space. The planet as a whole is gaining energy. The heat content of the ocean is increasing; the surface and atmosphere are warming; mid-latitude glaciers are melting; sea level is rising. The Arctic Ocean is losing its ice cover. None of these assertions are based on theory but on hard scientific fact. Given the science-heavy nature of climate change, debates and discussions have not played as big a role in the public sphere as they should, and instead are relegated to often misinformed political discussions and inaccessible scientific conferences. Michael B. McElroy, an eminent Harvard scholar of environmental studies, combines both his research chops and pedagogical expertise to present a book that will appeal to the lay reader but still be grounded in scientific fact. In Energy and Climate: Vision for the Future, McElroy provides a broad and comprehensive introduction to the issue of energy and climate change intended to be accessible for the general reader. The book includes chapters on energy basics, a discussion of the contemporary energy systems of the US and China, and two chapters that engage the debate regarding climate change. The perspective is global but with a specific focus on the US and China recognizing the critical role these countries must play in addressing the challenge of global climate change. The book concludes with a discussion of initiatives now underway to at least reduce the rate of increase of greenhouse gas emissions, together with a vision for a low carbon energy future that could in principle minimize the long-term impact of energy systems on global climate.

Energizing the Climate Debate

Author : Roger Gibbins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (874 download)

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Energy and Climate Change

Author : David Coley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119964458
Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Energy and Climate Change written by David Coley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more information on this title, including student exercises, please visit, http://www.people.ex.ac.uk/DAColey/ Energy and Climate Change: Creating a Sustainable Future provides an up-to-date introduction to the subject examining the relationship between energy and our global environment. The book covers the fundamentals of the subject, discussing what energy is, why it is important, as well as the detrimental effect on the environment following our use of energy. Energy is placed at the front of a discussion of geo-systems, living systems, technological development and the global environment, enabling the reader to develop a deeper understanding of magnitudes. Learning is re-enforced, and the relevance of the topic broadened, through the use of several conceptual veins running through the book. One of these is an attempt to demonstrate how systems are related to each other through energy and energy flows. Examples being wind-power, and bio-mass which are really solar power via another route; how the energy used to evaporate sea water must be related to the potential for hydropower; and where a volcano’s energy really comes from. With fermi-like problems and student exercises incorporated throughout every chapter, this text provides the perfect companion to the growing number of students taking an interest in the subject.

Clean Energy Common Sense

Author : Frances Beinecke
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442203188
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Clean Energy Common Sense written by Frances Beinecke and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-12-16 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by Thomas Paine's classic, Common Sense, Frances Beinecke provides a concise account of what is at stake in the climate change debate. The impact of global climate change extends beyond environmental destruction. She challenges all Americans to demand a clean and sustainable energy future before it is too late. Doing so will help put Americans back to work, reduce our reliance on foreign oil, and create a healthier planet, for ourselves and our children.

Global Climate Change, Environment and Energy

Author : Filiz Katman
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443876704
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Global Climate Change, Environment and Energy written by Filiz Katman and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global climate change is the result of the combination of natural climate change and man-made climate change that, directly or indirectly, damages global atmosphere components observed over a comparable time period. It has both a direct and an indirect impact on the earth. Despite its overwhelmingly negative connotations, it also brings about opportunities such as the possibility of a green economy. This book covers both sides of this debate in providing comprehensive information concerning climate change, environment and energy. It is composed of several articles discussing these issues from a multidimensional perspective and elaborating upon their interdependence. The articles collected here are based upon contributions to the International Symposium on Global Climate Change, Environment and Energy: Global Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainability, hosted by the Istanbul Aydin University Energy Politics and Markets Research Centre on 25 April 2011. The aim of the conference, which is reflected in this volume, was to fulfil the responsibility owed to the earth and to humanity.

Rethinking Climate Change Research

Author : Pernille Almlund
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317064356
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Climate Change Research written by Pernille Almlund and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The problems and debates surrounding climate change possess closely intertwined social and scientific aspects. This book highlights the importance of researching climate change through a multi-disciplinary approach; namely through cultural studies, communication studies, and clean-technology studies. These three dimensions taken together have the ability to constitute a positive agenda for climate change science in its broader understanding. To cope with the climate change challenge, not only do we need new energy efficient technologies, other ways of living, and new ways to communicate but we especially need new ways to start thinking about climate change across disciplines and backgrounds. We need to begin thinking across engineering, cultural science and communication in order to create innovative solutions, as well as to generate optimistic and progressive narratives about the future. Accentuating these 'softer' scientific disciplines, their overlaps, and the positive discourses they can create, this book provides some more profoundly researched themes pertaining to climate change and by that, strengthening the analytical as well as the integrative approaches toward the fundamental questions at stake.

The Energy-Climate Continuum

Author : Antoine Bret
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319079204
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Energy-Climate Continuum written by Antoine Bret and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-23 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Communicating Climate Change and Energy Security

Author : Greg Philo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135048118
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Communicating Climate Change and Energy Security written by Greg Philo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, drawing on new research conducted for the UK Energy Resource Centre (UKERC), examines the contemporary public debate on climate change and the linked issue of energy security. It analyses the key processes which affect the formation of public attitudes and understanding in these areas, while also developing a completely new method for analysing these processes. The authors address fundamental questions about how to adequately inform the public and develop policy in areas of great social importance when public distrust of politicians is so widespread. The new methods of attitudinal research pioneered here combined with the attention to climate change have application and resonance beyond the UK and indeed carry global import.