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1 online resource (208 pages) |
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Front Cover; Energy and Climate Change: An Introduction to Geological Controls, Interventions and Mitigations; Copyright; Dedication; Quotation; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Note to the Reader; Chapter 1: The Carbon Cycle, Fossil Fuels and Climate Change; The Carbon Cycle; How Fossil Fuels are Formed; Coal; From Coal Swamps to Coal; Coalification; Oil and Natural Gas; Primary Production; Preservation; Maturation; Chemistry and Physical Form; Migration; Methane Hydrates; Carbonate Rocks; How Fossil Fuel Formation and Combustion Change Climate; Geological Sequestration and Climate |
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Combustion and Climate ChangeSummary; Bibliography; Chapter 2: Natural Global Warming: Climate Change in ̀Deep Time; The Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum; The Permian-Triassic Extinction; The Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction; The End of the Younger Dryas; Summary; Bibliography; Chapter 3: Artificial Global Warming: The ̀Fossil Economy'; The ̀Fossil Economy': Britain and the Industrial Revolution; Early Atmospheric Effects of the Large-Scale Take-Up of Coal; The Growth of Oil; The Growth of Gas; Effects of the Take-Up of Oil, and Then Gas, on Global Emissions |
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Oil, Gas, and Coal Resource and Reserve, and ̀Unburnable' CarbonThe Transition of Energy Systems; Summary; Bibliography; Chapter 4: The Coming Industrial Revolution? Fossil Fuels and Developing Countries; Where are the Resources and Reserves?; Use of These Fossil-Fuel Resources in the Future; Coal; Gas; Oil; Can the Developing World ̀Leap-Frog' Fossil Fuels?; The ̀Paris Agreement' and the ̀Two-Degree World'; Summary; Bibliography; Chapter 5: Geology and the Reduction of Emissions; The Geological Principles of Carbon Capture and Storage; Displacement of Pore Fluid by CO2 |
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Industrial-Sized Storage SpaceLong-Term Behaviour of CO2; Disposal in Depleted Oil and Gas Fields; The Sleipner Experiment; How Will CCS Be Financed?; Bioenergy With Carbon Capture and Storage; Indirect Ways that Geological Materials Contribute to Low Carbon; Geothermal Energy; Compressed Air Energy Storage; Earth Resources for Batteries for Transport and Grid-Scale Storage; Hydrogen; Geological Radioactive Waste Disposal; Summary; Bibliography; Chapter 6: Climate Change Adaptation: Geological Aspects; Modelling and Climate Change; Climate Change and Groundwater |
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Climate and Groundwater in the UKClimate and Groundwater in Africa; Groundwater Adaptation; Groundwater and Geomicrobiology; The Food-Water-Energy Nexus; Urban Drainage and Climate Change; Summary; Bibliography; Chapter 7: Feedbacks and Tipping Points; Tipping Points and Feedbacks in Human Economic and Cultural Change; Teleological Feedback; Summary; Bibliography; Chapter 8: The Geological Macroscope; Macroscope in the Redwoods; Monitoring in Meteorology and Oceanography; Monitoring in Seismology and Volcanology; Critical Zone Observatories; Citizen Science and the ̀Internet of Things |
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Reasons to Measure and Monitor the Subsurface Beyond Earthquakes and Volcanoes |
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Print version record |
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Power resources -- Environmental aspects
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Climatic changes.
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Climate Change
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climate change.
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Climatic changes.
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Power resources -- Environmental aspects.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780128120224 |
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0128120223 |
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