Policy Implications of Greenhouse Warming

Panel on Policy Implications of Greenhouse Warming, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine

• 1 Front Matter; 2 Part One: Synthesis; 3 1 Introduction; 4 2 Background; 5 3 The Greenhouse Gases and Their Effects; 6 4 Policy Framework; 7 5 Adaptation; 8 6 Mitigation; 9 7 International Considerations; 10 8 Findings and Conclusions; 11 9 Recommendations; 12 Individual Statement by a Member Of The Synthesis Panel; 13 Part Two: The Science Base; 14 10 Introduction; 15 11 Emission Rates and Concentrations Of Greenhouse Gases; 16 12 Radiative Forcing and Feedback; 17 13 Model Performance; 18 14 The Climate Record; 19 15 Hydrology; 20 16 Sea Level; 21 17 A Greenhouse Forcing and Temperature Rise Estimation Procedure; 22 18 Conclusions; 23 Part Three: Mitigation; 24 19 Introduction; 25 20 Framework for Evaluating Mitigation Options; 26 21 Residential and Commercial Energy Management; 27 22 Industrial Energy Management; 28 23 Transportation Energy Management; 29 24 Energy Supply Systems; 30 25 Nonenergy Emission Reduction; 31 26 Population; 32 27 Deforestation; 33 28 Geoengineering; 34 29 Findings and Recommendations; 35 Part Four: Adaptation; 36 30 Findings; 37 31 Recommendations; 38 32 Issues, Assumptions, and Values; 39 33 Methods and Tools; 40 34 Sesitivities, Impacts, and Adaptations; 41 35 Indices; 42 36 Final Words; 43 Individual Statement by a Member of the Adaptation Panel; 44 Appendixes; 45 A Questions and Answers About Greenhouse Warming; 46 B Thinking About Time in the Context of Global Climate Change; 47 C Conservation Supply Curves for Buildings; 48 D Conservation Supply Curves for Industrial Energy Use; 49 E Conservation Supply Data for Three Transportation Sectors; 50 F Transportation System Management; 51 G Nuclear Energy; 52 H A Solar Hydrogen System; 53 I Biomass; 54 J Cost-Effectiveness of Electrical Generation Technologies; 55 K Cost-Effectiveness of Chlorofluorocarbon Phaseout-United States and Worldwide; 56 L Agriculture; 57 M Landfill Methane Reduction; 58 N Population Growth and Greenhouse Gas Emissions; 59 O Deforestation Prevention; 60 P Reforestation; 61 Q Geoengineering Options; 62 R Description of Economic Estimates of the Cost of Reducing Greenhouse Emissions; 63 S Glossary; 64 T Conversion Tables; 65 U Prefaces from the Individual Panel Reports; 66 V Acknowledgments from the Individual Panel Reports; 67 W Background Information on Panel Members and Professional Staff; 68 Index