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| Beyond Smoke and Mirrors : Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century
ISBN: 9780511681813
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Cambridge University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a Time
Subjects: Environmental Studies; Science: Physics; Science;
Global climate change is one of the most important issues humanity faces today. This book assesses the sensible, senseless and biased proposals for averting the potentially disastrous consequences of global warming, allowing the reader to draw their own conclusions on switching to more sustainable energy provision. Burton Richter is a Nobel Prize-winning scientist who has served on many US and international review committees on climate change and energy issues. He provides a concise overview of our knowledge and uncertainties within climate change science , discusses current energy demand and supply patterns, and the energy options available to cut emissions of greenhouse gases. Written in non-technical language, this book presents a balanced view of options for moving from our heavy reliance on fossil fuels into a much more sustainable energy system, and is accessible to a wide range of readers without scientific backgrounds - students, policymakers, and the concerned citizen.
Burton Richter was born in Brooklyn, New York on March 22, 1931. He received a bachelor's degree in physics in 1952 and a doctorate degree in physics in 1956 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He joined Stanford University's High-Energy Physics Lab as a research associate and became an assistant professor of physics in 1960. In 1963, he also took a position at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, one of the leading particle physics laboratories in the world. He was the laboratory director from 1984 to 1999. Richter and Samuel C. C. Ting received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1976 for discovering new particle they named J/psi. This finding revealed a new building block of matter. Richter's book, Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century, was published in 2010. In 2014, he received the National Medal of Science. He died from heart failure on July 18, 2018 at the age of 87. (Bowker Author Biography) |
