The global warming combat manual :
- 出版日期：c2008.
- 出版者：Praeger Publishers,
- 页数：xxv, 226 p. :
- 出版地：Westport, Conn :
- 第一责任说明：Bruce E. Johansen ; foreword by James E. Hansen.
- 尺寸：25 cm.
- 分类号：a875
- ISBN：978-0-313-35286-7(hdk.) :
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02h0018869 20100825145352.0 100825s2008 ctuac frb |001|||eng | 978-0-313-35286-7(hdk.) : CNY300.00 NGL a875 Johansen, Bruce E. (Bruce Elliott), 1950- The global warming combat manual : solutions for a sustainable world / Bruce E. Johansen ; foreword by James E. Hansen. Westport, Conn : Praeger Publishers, c2008. xxv, 226 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-207) and index. Foreword by James E Hansen -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1: Our cars are killing us: options in personal transport -- 2: Avoiding our suicide pact with aviation -- 3: Greening shelter and food -- 4: Biofuels: where the money is -- 5: Power forecast is windy -- 6: Harvesting the sun -- 7: Old wine in new bottles: nuclear power and changes in land use -- 8: Political economy of global warming -- 9: Technofixes -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index. From the Publisher: The Global Warming Combat Manual describes the practical measures that readers can take in their daily lives to reduce their carbon footprints, while showing how to link one’s personal choices with the big-picture science and the big-scale campaigns to combat global warming on the political, legal, economic, and technological fronts. The emphasis throughout is on practical tips for ways in which people in their everyday roles as citizens, consumers, homeowners, employees, commuters, tourists, sportsmen, business owners, or farmers can help combat global warming. Johansen-assisted by climatologist James Hansen’s foreword and appendix-gives general readers the tools they need to calculate and put into action the most rational and ethical "green" choices. Dovetailing the personal with the technological and public-policy dimensions, this book lays out the whole battery of existing, emerging, and speculative solutions for global warming. These range from the humdrum and easy (keeping your tires properly inflated), through the necessary and hard (retooling the ways you transport, house, and feed yourself for maximum energy efficiency and minimum carbon footprint). They also encompass the possible (switching over a large fraction of our carbon-based energy sector to alternative sectors based on biofuel, wind, solar, and geothermal power), the visionary (creating a bacterium that will consume CO2), and the improbable (deploying giant reflecting mirrors in space), as well as the weird and dangerous (pumping sulfur aerosols into the stratosphere). Global warming ; Environmental protection Prevention ; Citizen participation. ; Citizen participation. aCN bNGL NGL 875 J59 gljx1005 h1 ; rCNY300.00