The Science and Technologies of Global Warming reframes the climate debate through an engineering perspective, challenging conventional conclusions while exploring the technologies and infrastructure humanity may need. Why was this an important book for you to write?

The three most important points made in the first books – setting the stage for part one of the 4^th book in two parts – were:

a. the population has now been given the correct scientific understanding of the factual scientific causes of global warming (i.e., being caused by several natural factors beyond human control and not being caused by anthropogenic activities).                                                                                                         

b. to confirm that there is no crisis from the burning of all types of fossil fuels, but that the “cons” of the coal-burning technology now warrant the phasing down of that technology and the phasing in of alternate sources of heat energy replacing coal.  and      

c. depending on latitudinal location, elevation and proximity to an ocean, the population of a region must adapt to the extremes of temperature that exist at those positions of the region on Earth’s surface, not to a fictitious average annual global temperature which environmental scientists created as a convenient yardstick” to measure the diminutive effect of global warming on the environment.

Also of importance, the second part of “The Science and Technologies of Global Warming” addresses the major factors which are able to be controlled by anthropogenic actions and activities “for the betterment of humanity” – and less for protection of the environment.  Part two focusses on the several technological practicalities of the total problem: the transportation needs of the population, the infrastructure, the alternate sources of energy which are clean, reliable, and affordable, the sanitation, food and water supply, and the safety and health needs of the present population faced with a doubling or tripling of the population by 2300. Pollution is identified as being on the verge of being the “crisis” needing to be resolved in the very near future and before the population growth manifests more pollution.

Of the 25 technology candidates you rank in the book, which do you believe deserves the most urgent investment and why?​

Based on the summary weighted scores for the 25 technologies evaluated and prioritized – for the United States region – the most “urgent” investment should be a distributed set of technologies not a singular one. From a safety perspective, there is clearly a surge in the manufacture of all-electric vehicles that will transform the transportation system, and there must be major advancement made in the safety of the battery system that powers those vehicles. Lithium-ion batteries have a poor history of self-igniting explosively and that “con” in the technology for a safe and efficient electric vehicle battery system causes sodium-ion or aluminum-ion battery technology to be given a high priority. For the prospect of large population growth that is double or triple that of the current population there is urgency for energy technology to satisfy two different segments – the industrial needs for reliable high capacity energy such as nuclear (using thorium instead of uranium) or natural gas technology, and the other being to meet the needs of the population – residential, business, and educational facilities. The development of geothermal energy – from the deep-drilled closed loop technology should be given a major surge in development.

Wind and solar energy technologies are disappointingly unreliable for industrial needs but are suitable for residential, small business, and agricultural needs and should be used where efficient to do so (on land, not offshore installations).

How do you hope readers will evaluate your challenges to mainstream climate conclusions while still engaging critically with the evidence?

The set of four books written on global warming, climate change, and oceans’ surface levels rising are based on scientific principles that have been transformed from qualitative interpretation of observation to quantitative confirmation using advanced technology instrumentation and measurement sensors and measurement tools and processes. The Author is not expressing an opinion or personal interpretation of the scientific facts – only reporting what was found in several databases of valid scientific content (that were ignored by environmental scientists) who do NOT represent the consensus of the science and engineering professions. It is NOT the Author’s challenges to mainstream climate conclusions being presented that is of importance (i.e., “do not shoot the messenger”). The science profession should recognize that a major misinterpretation has been made and needs to be instituted in science textbooks. It is the same situation that occurred when Copernicus proved that the Ptolemy concept of Earth being the center of the universe was scientifically incorrect – the Sun was observed with improved telescopic instruments by Galileo and the mathematical genius of Kepler and Newton to confirm Copernicus interpretation of astronomical observations. The Earth is a dynamically rotating and translating sphere – it is not a flat disk on a vast sea as initially interpreted by “Flat Earth” scientists.

What do you most want readers to take away from the book’s emphasis on studying the past to better understand the future?

The Author did not write the set of books on global warming, climate change, and oceans’ surface levels rising to berate the environmental scientists for making a flawed interpretation of the valid measurements in the Keeling Curve database. However, it became evident during the extensive research and analysis of that scientifically valid database that other more important databases had not been researched sufficiently by the environmental scientists currently claiming to represent the “consensus” of the science profession. Had those scientists also analyzed the Vostok Ice Core Sampling database they would have realized that the Earth has a natural “thermostat” and has cycled between hot temperature peaks (10 degrees above “normal”) and low temperature peaks (3 degrees below “normal”) four times in the past 420,000 years. Anthropogenic “greenhouse gases” comprise less than 0.03% of the atmosphere (based on other scientists analyzing the Vostok ice core database), and that water vapor in the atmosphere – co-existing on the Earth during those 420,000 years – is over 95% of the total “greenhouse gases“ in the atmosphere. The French scientist Dr. Nicolas Caillon analyzed (in the 1990s) the same Vostok Ice Core database and proved that it is Earth’s varying temperature that drives the concentration of natural carbon dioxide in the atmosphere – and has done so (without the presence of humans) in those same 4 cycles in the past 420,000 years. It is hoped the Vostok Ice Core (in Antarctica) database will be recalled in readers’ memory for its most important scientific implications, not the Keeling Curve database.                                                                        

Using the Vostok database, this Author has projected that a 5^th cycle (starting within the next few centuries and having the same range of temperature difference between hot and cold peaks) will be repeated to end the current global warming trend now being experienced at the end of the 4^th cycle.

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