Preface: Welcome To The World Of The Runaway Greenhouse Effect
The Melting Of The Arctic
A Brief Introduction: What Is Global Warming?
Why Is Global Warming A Serious Issue
Can The Atmosphere Become Poisonous For Humans?
Removing The Extra Carbon From The Atmosphere
1. Storing Carbon in Old Oil and Gas Wells
2. Storing Carbon in Seawater
3. Converting Carbon Dioxide to Solids
4. Sequestering Carbon Dioxide in Geothermal Power Stations
5. Converting Carbon Dioxide to Oil with Sunlight
6. Burying Wood in Lakes, Peatlands, Mines or Deserts
7. Storing Carbon in Wooden Buildings
8. Storing Carbon in Living Trees
9. Sequestering Carbon with Artifi cial Trees (Sodium Hydroxide)
10. Storing Carbon in Piles of Wood and Branches
11. Storing Carbon in Anthills
12. Storing Carbon in Sea Salt
13. Storing Carbon in Peatlands
14. Storing Carbon in the Soil
15. Storing Carbon in the Amazonian Way - the Terra Preta System
16. Composting with Thermophilic Bacteria
17. Regenerating the Mangrove Forests
18. Spreading Mangroves to New Areas
19. Increasing the Amount of Coral Reefs
20. Adding Limestone into the Oceans
21. Greening the Oceans
22. Greening the Deserts
Reducing The G23. Storing Carbon in Clay ("the Cat Litter Method")
24. Storing Carbon in Ice
25. Don't be a Bio-Indicator - Stop Eating Meat!
26. Consuming Less Paper and Eating Less Rice
Removing Other Greenhouse Gases From The Air
Halting The Albedo Changes
27. Adding Sulphur, Ash and Dust to the Air
28. Controlling Wildfires
29. Reducing Soot Emissions
30. Making Clouds Whiter
31. Spreading Out the Shipping Routes
32. Refl ecting Substances in Low-Earth Orbits
33. Moon Dust in the Space
34. Blowing a Comet (or an Asteroid) to Space Dust
35. A Giant Refl ector in Space
36. Fifty Thousand Smaller Refl ectors in Space
37. Sixteen Billion Even Smaller Refl ectors in Space
38. Favouring Broad-leaved Trees, Larches and Sparse Forests
at High Latitudes
39. Stone Mulching with Highly Refl ecting Materials
40. Mulching with Other Refl ecting Materials
41. Refl ecting Plankton
42. Highly Refl ecting Films on Water Surfaces
43. Favouring Plants with Effi ciently Refl ecting Leaves
44. Giant Solar Chimneys as a Global Air-Conditioning System
45. Creating New Salt Deserts - or "Washing" the Existing Ones
46. Painting the Walls and Rooftops White
47. Sending Messages to ETs
48. Wind-powered Ice Sprinklers
49. Gravity-powered Ice Sprinklers
50. Dropping Winter Clouds by Kites or Balloons
51. Dropping Winter Clouds with Rockets or Grenades
52. Rethinking the Jet Plane Routes, Schedules and Flight Altitudes
53. Reducing Wintertime Cloud Cover by Mountaintop Sprinklers
54. Towing Icebergs to the Beaufort Gyre - and Blowing them to Pieces
55. Blowing Icebergs to Pieces - without Towing them to the Beaufort Gyre
56. Catalyzing Ice Formation by Floating Booms
57. Using Shallow Bays as Ice Nurseries
58. Providing the Northern Lakes with Better and Higher Wind-Breaks
59. Dropping the Winter Clouds Down with Bacteria
60. Snow Cannons on Board!
61. Long Lines of Strengthened Ice on the Sea
62. Using Large Icebergs as Drift Anchors
63. Scattering the Drifts of Fresh Snow
64. Flooding the Northern Peatlands in Winter
Reducing The Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Passive solar energy
Saving Energy: Houses
Saving Energy: Lighting
Saving Energy: Cars
Saving Energy: Food
Saving Energy: Consumption
Saving Energy: Recycling
Saving Energy: Children
International Travel
Halting Tropical Deforestation
Industrial Process Emissions: Cement and Steel
Solar Heat Collectors
Thin-fi lm Photovoltaics
Concentrating Solar
Concentrating Photovoltaics
Low-Concentration Photovoltaics
Solar CHP (Combined Heat and Power) and solar
CCP (Combined Cooling and Power)
Biofuels and other biomass energy
Ordinary Wind Power
Kite Power
Hydroelectric Power
Modern Thermoelectric Cells
Geothermal Energy
Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC)
The Problem with the Back-up
Saving the World by Burning the Peat?
Nuclear Power and Global Warming
Ordinary Nuclear Reactors
Pebble-Bed Modular Reactors (PBMRs)
Fast Breeder Reactors
The Top Ten Ways To Sterilize The Planet
The Top Ten Ways To Prevent The Overheating Of The Planet
The Ten Most Important Things Everyone Of Us Can Do