Meeting the Energy-Climate Challenge

Abstract

The essence of the challenge: Without energy there is no economy * Without climate there is no environment * Without economy and environment there is no material well-being, no civil society, no personal or national security. Alas, the world is getting most of the energy its economies need in ways that are wrecking the climate its environment needs. Climate change is not just "global warming" That term implies: something... * uniform across the planet, * mainly about temperature, * gradual, * quite possibly benign. What's actually happening is... * highly nonuniform, * not just about temperature, * rapid compared to capacities for adjustment * harmful for most places and times. We should call it "global climate disruption".

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 21, 2010
Accession Number
ADA524225

Entities

People

  • John P. Holdren

Organizations

  • Executive Office of the President of the United States

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Chemistry
  • Climate Change
  • Environment
  • Flood Barriers
  • Flood Control
  • Floods
  • Fossil Fuels
  • Glaciers
  • Greenhouse Effect
  • Greenhouse Gases
  • Particles
  • Sea Level
  • Sea Level Rise
  • Security
  • Storm Surges

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Environmental Engineering.
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.