The first half of my book deals with nuclear energy, first as related to the Fukushima crisis, then with nuclear energy in general. The book then looks at renewables and renewable energy in the context of current and future global warming and climate change.
During 2016, aided by a severe El Nino, temperatures in many places on our planet rose by over 1°C.
Here is a link to an article that gives details of this rise and its consequence. It is well worth the read: The World at 1°C – March ’17
- The Arctic today has record low ice levels: in late winter it has about as much ice as it had midsummer 35 years ago.
- New data is sharpening scientific fears that the Middle East and North Africa risks becoming uninhabitable in a few decades, as the availability of fresh water has fallen by two-thirds over the past 40 years. This research comes as evidence signals that nutrition and food security levels in the region have deteriorated sharply over the last six years.
- In East Africa, drought continues, with international aid officials saying they are facing one of the biggest humanitarian disasters since World War II. Twenty million people there already face malnutrition.
- Scientists have come up with a daunting roadmap for meeting the Paris Agreement goals, and achieving decarbonisation by 2050: global CO2 emissions will need to halve every decade. We are nowhere near this level of action; instead, we’re seeing the highest rates of CO2 growth on record.