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The Science of Climate Change

Author M. Khan , M. R. Islam
Release Date: 2019/06/01
ISBN: 9780470626122
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It has long been recognized that science is the pursuit of knowledge, knowledge is power, and power is political.  However, the fantasy of science being apolitical is a hallmark legacy of the enlightenment era, an era that romanticized pursuit of knowledge, disconnected from the baggage of power, politics, and dogmatic assertions. Yet, while the age of information has exponentially increased our access to knowledge, we can see, as clearly as ever, that scientific knowledge is neither apolitical nor dogma-free, and it certainly is not disconnected from power.  It is hard to imagine another era when the separation between science and politics has been this blurred as it is today. At the same time, it is true that no other topic than climate change has been so politically charged,  with one side dominating the scientific narration and branding anyone opposing the mainstream as a “climate change denier,” and the other standing in staunch defiance that climate change exists. In an age of political and scientific turmoil, how can we navigate out way to coming towards a more objective understanding of the scientific issues surrounding the climate change debate?

This book presents the current debate of climate change as scientifically futile, on both sides of the scientific, and often, political, spectrum.  The climate change debate has become like obesity, cancer, diabetes or opioid addiction, which is to say that the debate should not be if these maladies exist, but rather, what causes them. Instead of looking for the cause and making adjustments to remove those causes from our lifestyle, a combination of the capitalist drive towards mass production and a lack of identifying the roots of the problems, new solutions, or substitutes, have been proposed as “quick fixes” to the problems.  This book identifies the root causes of climate change and shows that climate change is real and it is also preventable, but that it can be reversed only if we stop introducing pollutants in the ensuing greenhouse gases.  The book brings back common sense and grounds scientists to the fundamentals of heat and mass transfer, while at the same time disconnecting politicking and hysteria from true scientific analysis of the phenomenon of global climate.

Table of Contents

  1. Cover
  2. Foreword
  3. Chapter 1: Introduction
    1. 1.1 Opening Statement
    2. 1.2 Summary
    3. 1.3 Chapter 2: State-of-the Art of the Climate Change Debate
    4. 1.4 Chapter 3: Forest Fires and Anthropogenic CO2
    5. 1.5 Chapter 4: Role of Agricultural Practices on Climate Change
    6. 1.6 Chapter 5: Role of Biofuel Processing in Creating Global Warming
    7. 1.7 Chapter 6: Role of Refining on Climate Change
    8. 1.8 Chapter 7: Scientific Characterization of Petroleum Fluids
    9. 1.9 Chapter 8: Delinearized History of Climate Change Hysteria
    10. 1.10 Chapter 9: The Monetization the Climate Science
    11. 1.11 Chapter 10: The Science of Global Warming
    12. 1.12 Chapter 11: Conclusions
  4. Chapter 2: State-of-The-Art of the Climate Change Debate
    1. 2.1 Introduction
    2. 2.2 The Anthropogenic Climate Change (ACC)
    3. 2.3 The Climate Change as a Natural Process
    4. 2.4 Conclusions
  5. Chapter 3: Forest Fires and Anthropogenic CO2
    1. 3.1 Introduction
    2. 3.2 The Science of Forest Fires
    3. 3.3 Climate Change and Forest Fire
    4. 3.4 Setting the Stage to Discover a CO2 Effect
    5. 3.5 Conclusions
  6. Chapter 4: Role of Agricultural Practices on Climate Change
    1. 4.1 Introduction
    2. 4.2 Climate-Water-Food Nexus
    3. 4.3 Biofuel
    4. 4.4 Pathway Analysis of Biofuels
    5. 4.5 Conclusions
  7. Chapter 5: Role of Biofuel Processing in Creating Global Warming
    1. 5.1 Introduction
    2. 5.2 The Process of Biodiesel Manufacturing
    3. 5.3 Conclusions
  8. Chapter 6: Role of Refining on Climate Change
    1. 6.1 Introduction
    2. 6.2 The Refining Process
    3. 6.3 Additives and Their Functions
    4. 6.4 Science of Nanoscale
    5. 6.5 Zeolite as a Refining Catalyst
    6. 6.6 Conclusions
  9. Chapter 7: Scientific Characterization of Petroleum Fluids
    1. 7.1 Introduction
    2. 7.2 Organic and Mechanical Frequencies
    3. 7.3 Redefining Radiation and Energy
    4. 7.4 Role of Petroleum Sources
    5. 7.5 Scientific Ranking of Petroleum
    6. 7.6 Conclusions
  10. Chapter 8: Delinearized History of Climate Change Hysteria
    1. 8.1 Introduction
    2. 8.2 Climate Change Hysteria
    3. 8.3 The Energy Crisis
    4. 8.4 Conclusions
  11. Chapter 9: The Monetization the Climate Science
    1. 9.1 Introduction
    2. 9.2 The Nobel Laureate Economist’s Claim
    3. 9.3 Historical Development
    4. 9.4 Petroleum in the Big Picture
    5. 9.5 Current Status of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
    6. 9.6 Comments on the Copenhagen Summit
    7. 9.7 The Paris Agreement
    8. 9.8 Carbon Tax: The Ultimate Goal of Climate Change Hysteria
    9. 9.9 Conclusions
  12. Chapter 10: The Science of Global Warming
    1. 10.1 Introduction
    2. 10.2 Current Status of Greenhouse
    3. 10.3 The Current Focus
    4. 10.4 Scientific Characterization of Greenhouse Gases
    5. 10.5 A New Approach to Material Characterization
    6. 10.6 Classification of CO2
    7. 10.7 The Role of Water in Global Warming
    8. 10.8 Characterization of Energy Sources
  13. Chapter 11: Conclusions
    1. 11.1 Concluding Remarks
    2. 11.2 Conclusions of Chapter 2: State-of-the Art of the Climate Change Debate
    3. 11.3 Conclusions of Chapter 3: Forest Fires and Anthropogenic CO2
    4. 11.4 Conclusions of Chapter 4: Role of Agricultureal practices on Climate Change
    5. 11.5 Conclusions of Chapter 5: Role of Biofuel Processing in Creating Gobal Warming
    6. 11.6 Conclusions of Chapetr 6: Role of Refining on Climate Change
    7. 11.7 Conclusions of Chapter 7: Scientific Characterization of Petroleum Fluids
    8. 11.8 Conclusions of Chapter 8: Delineraized History of Climate Change Hysteria
    9. 11.9 Conclusions of Chapter 9: The Monetization the Climate Science
    10. 11.10 Conclusions of Chapter 10: The Science of Global Warming
  14. Chapter 12: References
  15. Index
  16. End User License Agreement
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