Energy, environment and climate

This book explores energy use and its environmental impacts, including climatet change. The book covers basic science concepts as well as contemporary application in energy production and its environmental consequence. The first eleven chapters of the book treat individual energy resources, the technologies used to exploit them, and their environmental impacts. The next for chapters recognize climate change as the most significant global impact of our energy use. These chapters explore basic climate science, human and natural climate-change agents, tyhe evidence for climate change, and projections of further climate chnag