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Why we need nuclear power : the environmental case / Michael H. Fox.
- Title
- Why we need nuclear power : the environmental case / Michael H. Fox.
- Author
- Fox, Michael H.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, USA, 2014.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | TK9153 .F69 2014 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xii, 306 pages; illustrations ; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Makes a case for nuclear energy as a clean-energy solution."--
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1 Global Warming and Energy Production -- 1 Global climate change: Real or myth? -- What is the debate about? -- The IPCC and International Conventions -- The greenhouse effect -- Skeptical politicians and pundits -- Skeptical scientists -- Historical temperature and greenhouse gas record -- Last 10,000 years of climate -- the Holocene -- Recent changes in temperature and CO2 -- Melting glaciers and rising seas -- Models -- Response to Singer and Avery -- Predictions of future global warming and consequences -- Sea level and acidification -- Global weirding -- 2 Where our Energy Comes From -- A brief history of energy -- Coal -- Oil and natural gas -- Uranium -- How much energy do we use and where does it come from? -- World energy usage -- What can be done to reduce our carbon-intensive energy economy? -- 3 The Good, Bad and Ugly of Coal and Gas -- Coal -- Anatomy of a coal-fired plant --^
- ISBN
- 9780199344574 (hardback)
- 0199344574 (hardback)
- LCCN
- ^^2013044313
- OCLC
- 861207474
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library