The Carbon Conundrum Global Warming And Energy Policy In The Third Millennium Robert C Kelly by Robert C. Kelly 9781590973011, 1590973011 instant download after payment.

In The Carbon Conundrum: Global Warming and Energy Policy in the Third Millennium, Robert C. Kelly presents a comprehensive review of these issues including

An introduction to the greenhouse gas contraversy with a brief exposition of the physics of the greenhouse effect and a history of the scientific debate;

A review of the earliest theoretical and empirical evidence on changes in the Earth's climate including the Pre-Cambrian era, the Mid-Phanerozoic era, the Vostok ice core records and recent climate history;

An integrated assessment analysis of the global climate and economic system over the Third Millennium based upon an expanded version of the DICE model (Dynamic Integrated model of Climate and the Economy) first developed by William D. Nordhaus of Yale;

An examination of three alternative scenarios using the integrated assessment model: the Business As Usual Scenario (BAU), the Kyoto Protocol Scenario (KPS), and an optimal carbon path...the Optimum Carbon Path Scenario (OPT);