Co2 & Net Zero: A Matter of Life or Death - Couverture souple

Blakeley, Philip

 
9781739691110: Co2 & Net Zero: A Matter of Life or Death

Synopsis

The book looks at the relationship between the Carbon Dioxide concentration in the atmosphere and the temperature of the Earth over the last 500 million years. It uses scientific data and explains without using mathematics how the Carbon Dioxide level is not directly related to global warming. It points out that the current CO2 concentration is almost the lowest it has ever been in the last 500 million years, and also shows that in previous long ice ages the CO2 level has been 5 times higher than it is today.

A section of the book shows how CO2 is essential for all of life on Earth and the recent increase in the concentration has led to an increase in the vegetation cover particularly in dryer regions. Nevertheless, CO2 concentrations are currently at a near all the time low and this is a major factor in the extensive desert regions on all continents.

The book goes on to review the aims of the Net Zero agreement proposed by the United Nations and signed by at the Paris meeting in 2016. The measures now being implemented by some governments are already proving to be expensive and will lead to significant lifestyle changes for the entire population of the Earth. Yet the scientific evidence shows that we cannot expect the temperature of the Earth to be lowered by reducing CO2 emissions by human beings.

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À propos de l?auteur

Dr Philip Blakeley has a Bachelors degree in Physics and Chemistry and a PhD in Physics from the University of Keele in the UK.

He has worked as a freelance physicist assisting companies to use scientific principles to develop new products. Examples are the development of the seas wave turbine which has successfully generated electricity on the coast of Islay in Scotland, and designing sub-sea equipment to capture and analyse methane concentrations at 3km deep off shore of Sam Francisco.


Dr William Happer is the Cyrus Fogg Bracket Professor of Physics emeritus at Princeton University, in the USA.

He studied physics at the University of North Carolina, graduation in 1960 and his doctorate at Princeton University in 1964.

He was appointed to the U.S Department of Energy Office of Science by President G W Bush and was later appointed by President Trump to U.S National Security Council to report on the relationship between Carbon Dioxide emissions and Global Warming.

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