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David MacKay

Physicist and information theorist at Cambridge; wrote Sustainable Energy — Without the Hot Air and was the UK's chief scientific adviser on energy from 2009 to 2014. Died in 2016.

3 things

Avoiding Dangerous Climate ChangeBook Hans Joachim Schellnhuber et al.

recommended

I highly recommend the books Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change (Schellnhuber et al., 2006) and Global Climate Change (Dessler and Parson, 2006).

Sustainable Energy — Without the Hot Air (2008), chapter 31, on climate change; the book's own free HTML edition (page undated; date is the book's publication). (undated page)

withouthotair.com ↗

Global Climate ChangeBook Andrew E. Dessler and Edward A. Parson

recommended

I highly recommend the books Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change (Schellnhuber et al., 2006) and Global Climate Change (Dessler and Parson, 2006).

Sustainable Energy — Without the Hot Air (2008), chapter 31, on climate change; the book's own free HTML edition (page undated; date is the book's publication). (undated page)

withouthotair.com ↗

Statistical Review of World EnergyOther BP

recommended

there are many other helpful sources on the internet. I recommend, for example: BP’s Statistical Review of World Energy

Sustainable Energy — Without the Hot Air (2008), notes to chapter 1, on sources of energy data; the book's own free HTML edition (page undated; date is the book's publication). (undated page)

withouthotair.com ↗

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