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Energy and Climate: A Global Perspective

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Environment, Energy and Climate Change II

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Global warming and energy transition are two of the most important challenges humanity will ever meet. These are complex issues by themselves and by the interconnection they have with each other. The purpose of this chapter is to present an integrated picture of these problems, of their connections, and of a number of scientific and historical facts that should be known before elaborating scenarios for the future.

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Notes

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    See http://www.whitehouse.gov.

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    See Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, http://cdiac.ornl.gov/.

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    “ppm” = parts-per-million and “ppb” = parts-per-billion.

  4. 4.

    The optimum spacing could be much larger ([18], p. 430).

  5. 5.

    The Medieval Climate Anomaly had some regions as warm as in the late twentieth century. But these regional warm periods did not occur as coherently as the warming in the late twentieth century ([15], p. 21).

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  1. ETSI Industriales, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, 13071, Ciudad Real, Spain

    Antoine Bret

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  1. CERTES-IUT, The University Paris Est Créteil, Paris Créteil, France

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  2. Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM), Ciudad Real, Spain

    Elena Jiménez

  3. Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM), Ciudad Real, Spain

    Beatriz Cabañas

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Bret, A. (2015). Energy and Climate: A Global Perspective. In: Lefebvre, G., Jiménez, E., Cabañas, B. (eds) Environment, Energy and Climate Change II. The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, vol 34. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/698_2015_418

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