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Acknowledgments | p. xi |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Energy Solutions | |
Introductions | p. 5 |
The Energy-Economy-Environment Dilemma | p. 8 |
Renewable Energy Sources and the Realities of Settings at Energy Agenda | p. 16 |
Ethanol for a Sustainable Energy future | p. 21 |
The Billion-Ton Biofuels-Vision | p. 28 |
The Biofuels Conundrum | p. 31 |
Carbon-Negative Biofuels from Low-Input High-Diversity Grassland Biomass | p. 33 |
Commentary: Carbon-Negative Biofuels form Low-Input High-Diversity Grassland Biomass" | p. 40 |
Response to Commentary: "Carbon Negative Biofuels from Low-Input High-Diversity Grassland Biomass" | p. 43 |
Can the Upstarts Top Silicon? | p. 47 |
What's Already Happened? | |
Introduction | p. 57 |
Warming and Earlier Spring Increaser Western U.S. Forest Wildfire Activity | p. 63 |
How Much More Rain Will Global Warming Bring? | p. 74 |
Running Out of Water and Time | p. 82 |
Rapid Advance of Spring Arrival Dates in Long-Distance Migratory Birds | p. 88 |
Perspectives on the Arctic's Shrinking Sea-Ice Cover | p. 93 |
Recent Sea Level contributions of the Antarctic and Greenland Ice Sheets | p. 103 |
projecting The Future | |
Intruduction | p. 115 |
IPCC Report Lays Out Options for Taming Greenhouse Gases | p. 119 |
The Limits of Consensus | p. 123 |
Commentary: A Closer Look at the Ipcc Report | p. 128 |
Response to Commentary: A Closer Look at the IPCC Report | p. 130 |
Simulating Arctic Climate Warmth and Ice Fields Retreat in the Interglaciation | p. 132 |
A Semi-Empirical Approach to Projecting Future Sea Level Rise | p. 140 |
Prioritizing Climate Change Adaptation Needs for Food Security in 2030 | p. 146 |
Critical Assumptions in the Stern Review on Climate Change | p. 155 |
Climate Change: Risk, Ethics, and the Stern Review | p. 161 |
Dealing With Climate Change | |
Introduction | p. 169 |
A Combined Mitigation-Geoengincering Approach to Climate Stabilization | p. 173 |
Preparing to Capture Carbon | p. 180 |
A Guide to Co2 Sequestration | p. 186 |
Carbon Trading | p. 191 |
Carbon Trading Over Taxes | p. 193 |
Index | p. 197 |
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