Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air
2.1. Motivations http://www.ck12.org Bjørn Lomborg’sThe Skeptical Environmentalist(2001). InThe Skeptical Environmentalist, Bjør ...
http://www.ck12.org Chapter 2. Numbers, Not Adjectives Where numbers are used, their meaning is often obfuscated by enormousness ...
2.1. Motivations http://www.ck12.org Figure 1.1:This Greenpeace leaflet arrived with my junk mail in May 2006. Do beloved windmi ...
http://www.ck12.org Chapter 2. Numbers, Not Adjectives Figure 1.2:Are “our” fossil fuels running out? Total crude oil production ...
2.1. Motivations http://www.ck12.org dioxide(CO 2 ). Most of the carbon dioxide emissions come from fossil-fuel burning. And the ...
http://www.ck12.org Chapter 2. Numbers, Not Adjectives Figure 1.5:The history of UK coal production and world coal production fr ...
2.1. Motivations http://www.ck12.org scale, the book would need to be one metre tall! To cope with this difficulty, we can eithe ...
http://www.ck12.org Chapter 2. Numbers, Not Adjectives Figure 1.6:What happened next. The history of UK coal production and worl ...
2.1. Motivations http://www.ck12.org “The burning of fossil fuels sends about seven gigatons ofCO 2 per year into the atmosphere ...
http://www.ck12.org Chapter 2. Numbers, Not Adjectives Figure 1.7:The upper graph shows carbon dioxide(CO 2 )concentrations (in ...
2.1. Motivations http://www.ck12.org The middle graph shows (on a logarithmic scale) the history of UK coal production, Saudi oi ...
http://www.ck12.org Chapter 2. Numbers, Not Adjectives In the year 2000, the world’s greenhouse gas emissions were about 34 bill ...
2.1. Motivations http://www.ck12.org The major countries with the biggest per-capita emissions are Australia, the USA, and Canad ...
http://www.ck12.org Chapter 2. Numbers, Not Adjectives Congratulations, Britain! The UK has made it onto the winners’ podium. We ...
2.1. Motivations http://www.ck12.org These possibly-safe trajectories require global emissions to fall by 70% or 85% by 2050. Wh ...
http://www.ck12.org Chapter 2. Numbers, Not Adjectives Figure 1.10:Reproduced by kind permission of PRIVATE EYE / Peter Dredge h ...
2.1. Motivations http://www.ck12.org ethicalassertions. Examples offactual assertionsare “global fossil-fuel burning emits 34 bi ...
http://www.ck12.org Chapter 2. Numbers, Not Adjectives Figure 1.11:Reproduced by kind permission of PRIVATE EYE / Paul Lowe http ...
2.1. Motivations http://www.ck12.org the element widely touted as the green fuel of the future.” The workNew Scientistwas descri ...
http://www.ck12.org Chapter 2. Numbers, Not Adjectives The weights of an atom of carbon and a molecule ofCO 2 are in the ratio 1 ...
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