Green Paradox : A Supply-Side Approach to Global Warming

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Why the Earth Is Getting Warmer -- Just a tiny little bit -- The greenhouse effect -- Why it all comes down to carbon dioxide -- Other greenhouse gases -- The human influence -- One more degree already -- The past 800,000 years -- Correlation and causality: A solvable puzzle -- On to the North Pole -- How warm will it get? -- What is so bad about it? -- Chapter 2. Reshaping the World's Energy Matrix -- The first climate accords -- The Kyoto Protocol -- The climate sinners -- The world's energy matrix -- "Green" electricity -- The nuclear alternative -- Storing fossil-fuel waste and nuclear waste -- Space or waste? -- How long will the fossil and nuclear fuels last? -- Cheap and expensive ways to reduce the emission of CO2 -- The law of one price and the European emissions trading system -- Feed-in tariffs, instrumental goals, and European policy chaos -- Chapter 3. Table or Tank? -- Capturing the sun -- What is bioenergy? -- "Green" gasoline -- More than electricity -- A dubious eco-balance sheet -- The BtL hope -- Slash and burn -- One hectare for me! -- Farmers to OPEC! -- The Tortilla Crisis -- The Ratchet Effect -- A tale of carbon and man -- Chapter 4. The Neglected Supply Side -- Reckoning without one's host -- The missing regulating screw -- Supply and demand -- How "green" policies shift the demand curve -- Rembrandts vs. cars: The carbon supply -- Carbon leakage: Grabbing from the collection box -- Nature's supply -- How much stays in the air? -- At the mercy of the sheikhs -- What drives the resource owners? -- Greed and sustainability -- Nirvana ethics -- Wrong expectations -- The social norm -- Why extracting more slowly makes the cake bigger -- Why carbon deposits should not be sealed off -- The fear of a coup -- Chapter 5. Fighting the Green Paradox -- The impotence of politics.