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Informationen zum Autor Michael Stephenson is an expert on energy and climate change and has a unique mixture of experience in modern climate and energy science, policy, “deep time? climate science, and coal and petroleum geology. He has published two books on related subjects and over 80 peer-reviewed papers. His recently published book Shale gas and fracking: the science behind the controversy (Elsevier) won an ‘honourable mention’ at the Association of American Publishers PROSE awards in Washington DC in February 2016. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier Journal Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. In addition, as Chief Scientist of the British Geological Survey, Michael Stephenson has represented UK science interests in energy, as well as providing extensive advice to the UK Government. Klappentext 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 their implications in climate change. In addition! the book covers the historical and economic trends of fossil fuel usage and the ways they affect natural systems (i.e.! the start of the Anthropocene). Finally! the book takes a forward look at the future using evidence from the deep time past! also presenting tactics to mitigate climate change using negative emissions technology (e.g. bioenergy and carbon capture and storage! BECCS). . In addition to geoscientists! climate scientists! environmental scientists! and students studying climate! paleoclimate! energy and resources! and geology and environmental science! the book is relevant to policymakers! energy professionals! energy statisticians! energy historians and economists.
List of contents
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
