Overview
- Essential guidance for decision-makers seeking to better understand how climate variability and change impact energy production and supply
- Rich in science and case studies, this report allows decision- and policymakers to prepare for climate change
- The definitive input report on climate change and energy for the 2013 National Climate Assessment
- Critical state of the art information from a broad range of climate change experts in academia, private industry, state and local governments, NGOs, professional societies, and impacted communities.
Part of the book series: NCA Regional Input Reports (NCARIR)
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Developed to inform the 3rd National Climate Assessment, and a landmark study in terms of its breadth and depth of coverage and conducted under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy, Climate Change and Energy Supply and Use examines the known effects and relationships of climate change variables on energy production and supply, including oil, gas, thermal electricity, and renewable energy.
Knowledge of today’s available energy forms is constantly surfacing and changing in the face of climate change, making it increasingly important to enhance communication about various energy supplies. This report on energy supply and use summarizes current knowledge, especially emerging findings, about implications of climate change for energy production and supply (oil and gas, thermal electricity, renewable energy, integrated perspectives, and indirect impacts on energy systems). A comprehensive resource for community planners and researchers, it discusses future risk-management strategies surrounding water treatment, heating or cooling, and mitigation that the country can utilize in its energy consumption. The authors analyze findings from their own research and practice to arrive at conclusions about vulnerabilities, risks, and impact concerns for different aspects of U.S. energy supply and use. Global and national policy contexts are informed by these efforts to create energy options and choices.
Rich in science and case studies, Climate Change and Energy Supply and Use offers decision makers and stakeholders a substantial basis from which to make informed choices that will affect energy risk-management in the decades to come.
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Book Title: Climate Change and Energy Supply and Use
Book Subtitle: Technical Report for the U.S. Department of Energy in Support of the National Climate Assessment
Editors: Thomas J. Wilbanks
Series Title: NCA Regional Input Reports
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-553-3
Publisher: Island Press Washington, DC
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Island Press 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-61091-553-3Published: 12 September 2014
Series ISSN: 2945-5677
Series E-ISSN: 2945-5685
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 72
Topics: Climate Change, Fossil Fuels (incl. Carbon Capture), Energy Systems, Renewable and Green Energy