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renewables and nuclear energy more cost-competitive and encourage their greater
use, further reducing demands for fossil energy. So even if the profit margins for
energy companies remain more-or-less constant, the volumes of natural gas, petroleum, and coal being sold could drop significantly. The reasons for climate change
denial by the fossil fuel industry and its allies now become more apparent. As a wise
man once said, “Follow the money.”
References
Adair, R. K. (2012). Another exchange on climate change. Physics Today. Readers Forum, 65(3), 8.
Arrhenius, S. (1896). On the influence of carbonic acid in the air upon the temperature of the
ground. Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science (London, Edinburgh, and Dublin),
Series 5, 41(251), 237–276.
BP p.l.c. (2019). BP statistical review of world energy (68th ed.). London: 64 p.
Brown, D. (2019, November). Hydrocarbons expected to remain the world’s primary energy
source. AAPG Explorer, 40(11), 6.
Brulle, R. J. (2014). Institutionalizing delay: Foundation funding and the creation of U.S. climate
change counter-movement organizations. Climatic Change, 122(4), 681–694.
Coleman, C., & Dietz, E. (2019). Fossil fuel subsidies: A closer look at tax breaks and societal
costs: Fact sheet. Washington, DC: Environmental and Energy Study Institute. 10 p. (https://
www.eesi.org/files/FactSheet_Fossil_Fuel_Subsidies_0719.pdf).
Dole, R., Hoerling, M., Perlwitz, J., Eischeid, J., Pegion, P., Zhang, T., Quan, X.-W., Xu, T., &
Murray, D. (2011). Was there a basis for anticipating the 2010 Russian heat wave? Geophysical
Research Letters, 38(6), L06702. 5 p.
Ehlers, J., & Gibbard, P. (2011). Quaternary glaciation. In V. P. Singh, P. Singh, & U. K. Haritashya
(Eds.), Encyclopedia of snow, ice and glaciers (Encyclopedia of earth sciences series).
Dordrecht: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2642-2.
Epstein, A. (2014). The moral case for fossil fuels. New York: Penguin Group. 256 p.
Fairbanks, R. G. (1989). 17,000-year glacio-eustatic sea level record: Influence of glacial melting
rates on the younger Dryas event and deep-ocean circulation. Nature, 342, 637–642.
IPCC. (2018). Global warming of 1.5°C: An intergovernmental panel on climate change special
report (Summary for policymakers). Geneva, Switzerland, World Meteorological Organization,
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Jardine, P. (2011). The Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum. Palaeontology Online, 1, 1–7.
Article 5.
Klare, M. T. (2019). All hell breaking loose: The Pentagon’s perspective on climate change.
New York: Henry Holt and Company. 304 p. (ISBN: 9781627792486).
Kolbert, E. (2014). The sixth extinction: An unnatural history. New York: Henry Holt and
Company. 319 p. (ISBN 978-0-8050-9299-8).
McNeill, L. (2016). This lady scientist defined the Greenhouse Effect but didn’t get the credit:
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lady-scientist-helped-revolutionize-climate-science-didnt-get-credit-180961291/
Merlan, A. (2019). Republic of lies: American conspiracy theorists and their surprising rise to
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noaa.gov/co2/story/What+is+Ocean+Acidification%3F. Accessed 13 Jan 2020.
Pierrehumbert, R. T. (2011, January). Infrared radiation and planetary temperature. Physics Today,
64(1), 33–38.
9 Fossil Fuels and Climate Change
renewables and nuclear energy more cost-competitive and encourage their greater
use, further reducing demands for fossil energy. So even if the profit margins for
energy companies remain more-or-less constant, the volumes of natural gas, petroleum, and coal being sold could drop significantly. The reasons for climate change
denial by the fossil fuel industry and its allies now become more apparent. As a wise
man once said, “Follow the money.”
References
Adair, R. K. (2012). Another exchange on climate change. Physics Today. Readers Forum, 65(3), 8.
Arrhenius, S. (1896). On the influence of carbonic acid in the air upon the temperature of the
ground. Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science (London, Edinburgh, and Dublin),
Series 5, 41(251), 237–276.
BP p.l.c. (2019). BP statistical review of world energy (68th ed.). London: 64 p.
Brown, D. (2019, November). Hydrocarbons expected to remain the world’s primary energy
source. AAPG Explorer, 40(11), 6.
Brulle, R. J. (2014). Institutionalizing delay: Foundation funding and the creation of U.S. climate
change counter-movement organizations. Climatic Change, 122(4), 681–694.
Coleman, C., & Dietz, E. (2019). Fossil fuel subsidies: A closer look at tax breaks and societal
costs: Fact sheet. Washington, DC: Environmental and Energy Study Institute. 10 p. (https://
www.eesi.org/files/FactSheet_Fossil_Fuel_Subsidies_0719.pdf).
Dole, R., Hoerling, M., Perlwitz, J., Eischeid, J., Pegion, P., Zhang, T., Quan, X.-W., Xu, T., &
Murray, D. (2011). Was there a basis for anticipating the 2010 Russian heat wave? Geophysical
Research Letters, 38(6), L06702. 5 p.
Ehlers, J., & Gibbard, P. (2011). Quaternary glaciation. In V. P. Singh, P. Singh, & U. K. Haritashya
(Eds.), Encyclopedia of snow, ice and glaciers (Encyclopedia of earth sciences series).
Dordrecht: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2642-2.
Epstein, A. (2014). The moral case for fossil fuels. New York: Penguin Group. 256 p.
Fairbanks, R. G. (1989). 17,000-year glacio-eustatic sea level record: Influence of glacial melting
rates on the younger Dryas event and deep-ocean circulation. Nature, 342, 637–642.
IPCC. (2018). Global warming of 1.5°C: An intergovernmental panel on climate change special
report (Summary for policymakers). Geneva, Switzerland, World Meteorological Organization,
32 p. (ISBN 978-92-9169-151-7).
Jardine, P. (2011). The Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum. Palaeontology Online, 1, 1–7.
Article 5.
Klare, M. T. (2019). All hell breaking loose: The Pentagon’s perspective on climate change.
New York: Henry Holt and Company. 304 p. (ISBN: 9781627792486).
Kolbert, E. (2014). The sixth extinction: An unnatural history. New York: Henry Holt and
Company. 319 p. (ISBN 978-0-8050-9299-8).
McNeill, L. (2016). This lady scientist defined the Greenhouse Effect but didn’t get the credit:
Smithsonian Magazine, December 5, 2016. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/
lady-scientist-helped-revolutionize-climate-science-didnt-get-credit-180961291/
Merlan, A. (2019). Republic of lies: American conspiracy theorists and their surprising rise to
power. New York: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Co.. 288 p. (ISBN: 9781250159052).
NOAA. (2020). What is ocean acidification? National Ocean Service website. https://www.pmel.
noaa.gov/co2/story/What+is+Ocean+Acidification%3F. Accessed 13 Jan 2020.
Pierrehumbert, R. T. (2011, January). Infrared radiation and planetary temperature. Physics Today,
64(1), 33–38.
9 Fossil Fuels and Climate Change