Abstract
A bibliometric analysis and a short discussion of some solutions to global warming. The current chapter attempts to reassess the origin of global warming and proposes an effective human-scale solution. The bibliometric review reveals an increasing trend of indexed publications from 1936 to 2020. The trend analysis shows research turning towards topics such as performance, life-cycle assessment, electric vehicles, construction, thermal comfort, mechanical properties, and quality. With regard to the origin of global warming, doubt is cast on the view that increased heat in the atmosphere is chiefly caused by increased carbon. From the point of view of chemistry and physics, CO2 is not a cause of heat, but a result of what creates heat (combustion). Moreover, the low-carbon strategies suggested to control the increase of heat seem slow, difficult to measure and control, and so far, ineffective. In industry, it is axiomatic that good technologies have measurable results, and always work in the same way if conditions are as foreseen.
TopBibliometric Analysis On Solutions Of Global Warming
In this section, we explored the diffusion and evolution of the knowledge in the field of global warming. This approach allows us to reflect the research structure based on 2,000 papers using a search based on the key terms “solutions of global warming” conducted on Web of Sciences database, April 14, 2022. The bibliometric analysis highlighted five main clusters (Figure 1) with a focus on the keywords climate change, performance, CO2, and energy (Figure 2). Cluster 1 comprises red items including ‘climate change, temperature, adaptation, impact, vulnerability, environment, and policy’. The second cluster encompasses green items such as ‘carbon-dioxide, CO2, conversion, CO2 capture and sequestration’… The yellow items (The third cluster of key terms) groups the keywords ‘performance, optimization, energy, electric vehicles, solar energy, and hydrogen’ while the blue cluster gathers and associates terms such as ‘sustainable development, energy efficiency, systems, and thermal comfort’. Finally, the purple group of key terms includes ‘biomass, emissions, and carbon’.
Figure 1. Occurrence and links Network using the keywords “Solutions of global warming” and VOSviewer tool
Key Terms in this Chapter
Heat: is caused by combustion , and amplified by greenhouse gases . Heat which is generated at a low level – e.g. by power stations, rocket launches etc. – cannot immediately disperse into space, but moves to cooler media at the speed dictated by the physics of the surrounding environment. Heat is a form of energy which only moves from an energised state (i.e. ‘hot’) to a less-energised state (i.e. ‘cold’). As the upper air is colder (less-energised) than the lower air, heat cannot normally come downwards. The Earth can only lose heat at a certain rate without HUMAN technological assistance. New inventions exist which cool the world by moving heat upwards (in the air) to a level from which it cannot return and harm people or other living things on the ground. We can stop flooding and drought! We can cool the World and feed the World!