A Short Sensible Book about the World, Us and Global Warming
By Mord Bogie
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This sensible book, written with readers lacking a scientific or technical background in mind, explores the history of global warming — actually, global overheating — that is changing the world’s climate and will, if it continues, destabilize human civilization. The book then describes an achievable plan to reverse global overheating, some innovative but little-known technologies to do the heavy lifting, and actions by the U.S. government to support the plan and the technologies. U.S. contributions to the global effort to stabilize the global climate will create millions of jobs in the U.S. and widespread prosperity.
The book is short — about 7,000 words (or 8 pages in a business or news magazine) in 23 topics with pictures and charts. Other relevant issues that in the interest of brevity are not discussed in the topics are described in an Appendix for readers seeking additional information. Extensive source notes, an annotated bibliography, and information about the author appear at the end.
If enough people understand not only the very real threat of global overheating but also what can readily be done to reverse it, we can make our elected leaders stand up and do what has to be done before it’s too late.
Mord Bogie
Writer, editor and consultant in multiple genres with a background in corporate legal practice, economic development, international business, financial management, software programming and freelance writing.See portfolio at https://sites.google.com/site/mordbogie/.
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A Short Sensible Book about the World, Us and Global Warming - Mord Bogie
A Short Sensible Book
about
the World, Us and
Global Warming
Mord Bogie
Copyright 2015 Mord Bogie
Copyright material is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution–Share Alike 4.0 Unported License.
Cover image: Earth and Moon by NASA’s Mariner 10 in 1973 from a distance of 2.6 million miles.
February 28, 2015
For Cavanagh and Chloe
who will inherit the world we leave
and for their parents Caitlin and Cory
and their uncle Geoffrey
I am pleased to acknowledge with gratitude the efforts of my lifetime friend Cherrill Heaton in editing the numerous drafts of this book. His many suggestions have made it measurably more sensible than the original writing, especially to readers who (like both of us) lack a technical background.
Contents
Introduction
Topic 1. Our Universe and Galaxy
Topic 2. Our Sun and Planet
Topic 3. Earth is 1 Earth Year Old
Topic 4. What Happened During Earth Year 1?
Topic 5. December Was a Busy Month
Topic 6. Our Species Grew Up in the Pleistocene Ice Ages
Topic 7. Earth’s Temperature and CO2 Go Hand in Glove
Topic 8. Inventing Agriculture, Civilization and Industry
Topic 9. The Industrial Revolution and What It Did
Topic 10. Atmospheric CO2 Is Rapidly Increasing
Topic 11. Earth’s Temperature Is Rising
Topic 12. Sea Level Is Also Rising
Topic 13. The Present Risks of Global Overheating
Topic 14. How to Stabilize the Climate
Topic 15. The 350-ppm/1-degree Plan
Topic 16. Reducing Fossil Fuel Emissions
Topic 17. The Best Clean-Energy Source
Topic 18. Innovative Clean Technologies
Topic 19. Reenergizing the Economy with Clean Power
Topic 20. Taking the First Step
Topic 21. Government Action to Stabilize the Climate
Topic 22. A Short Sensible Summary
Topic 23. Last Thoughts
Appendix: Other Issues
Notes on Sources
Annotated Bibliography
About the Author
Introduction
This sensible book, written with readers lacking a scientific or technical background in mind, explores the history of global warming — actually, global overheating — that is changing the world’s climate and will, if it continues, destabilize human civilization. The book then describes an achievable plan to reverse global overheating, some innovative but little-known technologies to do the heavy lifting, and actions by the U.S. government to support the plan and the technologies. U.S. contributions to the global effort to stabilize the global climate will create millions of jobs in this country and widespread prosperity such as we haven’t seen in many years.
The book is short — about 7,000 words (or 8 pages in a business or news magazine) in 23 topics with pictures and charts. Other relevant issues that in the interest of brevity are not discussed in the topics are described in an Appendix for readers seeking additional information. Notes on Sources for the statements, quotations, and images in the book appear after the Appendix. Since almost everything in the book is documented, there’s a lot to explore for readers interested in source material. But the notes themselves contain no new information and are not linked in the topics so as not to distract you while you’re reading the book.
Thank you for reading the book. If enough people understand not only the very real threat of global overheating but also what can readily be done to reverse it, we can make our elected leaders stand up and do what has to be done before it’s too late.
Topic 1. Our Universe and Galaxy
Our Universe has created billions of galaxies in its 13.7 billion years, as illustrated in the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) timeline.
Timeline of our Universe by NASA/WMAP Science Team
NASA’s roadmap displays our own galaxy, the Milky Way, where our Sun and its planets (circled) run