Managing Global Warming

Professor Trevor Letcher is an Emeritus Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and living in the United Kingdom. He was previously Professor of Chemistry, and Head of Department, at the University of the Witwatersrand, Rhodes University, and Natal, in South Africa (1969-2004). He has published over 300 papers on areas such as chemical thermodynamic and waste from landfill in peer reviewed journals, and 100 papers in popular science and education journals. Prof. Letcher has edited and/or written 32 major books, of which 22 were published by Elsevier, on topics ranging from future energy, climate change, storing energy, waste, tyre waste and recycling, wind energy, solar energy, managing global warming, plastic waste, renewable energy, and environmental disasters. He has been awarded gold medals by the South African Institute of Chemistry and the South African Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics honoured him with a Festschrift in 2018. He is a life member of both the Royal Society of Chemistry (London) and the South African Institute of Chemistry. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, and is a Director of the Board of the International Association of Chemical Thermodynamics since 2002.

• A INTRODUCTION1. Why do we have global warming? Professor T M Letcher, 2. Greenhouse Gas Removal, the Numbers Involved Dr. Robert Chris3. The Present Status of Electricity Generation in the World; how important it is, which industrial methods of electricity generation world uses, how efficient they are, how they interact in an electrical gridProfessor Igor PioroB REDUCING CO2: FOSSIL FUELS, NUCLEAR ENERGY 4. The Future of Fossil Fuels Trevor M Letcher5. Nuclear Fission Professor Igor Pioro6. Nuclear Fusion: what of the Future? Dr Richard KembletonC REDUCING GREENHOUSE GASES: RENEWABLES and ZERO CARBON/ CARBON NEUTRAL FORMS OF ENERGY and ELECTRIC CARS7. The Potential of Renewable Energies Professor Patrick Moriarty and Professor Damon Honnery8. Hydropower Professor Ånund Killingtveit9. Solar EnergyDr Lee Phillips10. WindProfessor Subhamony Bhattacharya11. Energy Infrastructure and StorageProfessor Gareth Harrison12. BiomassProfessor Mirjam Roeder13. Biomass: Quantifying the Effects of Forest-Based EnergyProfessor Annette Cowie14. Hydrogen Fuel, Fuel Cells and methane Dr Johannes Lindorfer 15. Ground Source Heat PumpsProfessor Subhamony Bhattacharya16. Carbon SequestrationProfessor Subhamony BhattacharyaD REDUCING CO2: INDUSTRY, FARMING and IMPROVED EFFICIENCY17. Plant Derived Chemicals including Plastics as a way of Reducing GHG PollutionProfessor Janet L Scott18. Reduce CO2 Pollution by Investing in CO2 as a Chemical Feedstock (CH4?)Professor Peter Styring19. Greener farming: managing carbon and nitrogen cycles to reduce GHG emissionsProfessor Nic Lampkin and Dr Laurence SmithE GEO-ENGINEERING20. Geo-engineering (sunlight reflection methods (SRM); negative emissions technologies (NET) and greenhouse gas removal (GGR))Dr Renaud de RichterF ENVIRONMENTAL and HUMAN ISSUES21. Ethics of Geo-engineeringClare Heyward22. Economics of Climate Change and Global WarmingProfessor Peter Howard23. Migration and Climate ChangeDr Andreas C Simonelli24. Social Justice in Climate ChangeMs Alice Venn25. Economics of Geo-engineeringProfessor Juan B Moreno Cruz26. Justice in Managing Climate ChangeProfessor Ivo Wallimann-Helmer27. Local Actions and Personal ActionsDr Phil Ireland