@book {67791,
	title = {Energy: Perspectives, Problems, and Prospects (Chinese Edition)},
	year = {2011},
	month = {Jan 1, 2011},
	publisher = {Beijing: Science Press},
	organization = {Beijing: Science Press},
	abstract = {The book offers a comprehensive account of how the world evolved to its 
present state in which humans now exercise a powerful, in many cases 
dominant, influence for global environmental change. It outlines the 
history that led to this position of dominance, in particular the role 
played by our increasing reliance on fossil sources of energy, on coal, 
oil and natural gas, and the problems that we are now forced to confront
 as a result of this history. The concentration of carbon dioxide in the
 atmosphere is greater now than at any time over at least the past 
650,000 years with prospects to increase over the next few decades to 
levels not seen since dinosaurs roamed the Earth 65 million years ago.  
Comparable changes are evident also for methane and nitrous oxide and 
for a variety of other constituents of the atmosphere including species 
such as the ozone depleting chlorofluorocarbons for which there are no 
natural analogues. Increases in the concentrations of so-called 
greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are responsible for important changes
 in global and regional climate with consequences for the future of 
global society which, though difficult to predict in detail, are 
potentially catastrophic for a world poorly equipped to cope.  Changes 
of climate in the past were repetitively responsible for the demise of 
important civilizations. These changes, however, were generally natural 
in origin in contrast to the changes now underway for which humans are 
directly responsible.  The challenge is to transition to a new energy 
economy in which fossil fuels will play a much smaller role. We need as a
 matter of urgency to cut back on emissions of climate altering gases 
such as carbon dioxide while at the same time reducing our dependence on
 unreliable, potentially disruptive, though currently indispensable, 
sources of energy such as oil, the lifeblood of the global 
transportation system. The book concludes with a discussion of options 
for a more sustainable energy future, highlighting the potential for 
contributions from wind, sun, biomass, geothermal and nuclear, 
supplanting currently unsustainable reliance on coal, oil and natural 
gas.},
	url = {http://product.dangdang.com/product.aspx?product_id=21049478\&ref=search-1-pub},
	author = {McElroy, Michael B.}
}
