Controlling the Future - Controlling Nonindustrial Processes: Preventing Climate and Other Disasters

Many books have been published about stopping global warming. What sets this book apart is that it applies the science of process control to analyze the warming process. 

To control a process, we must fully understand it. Global warming is analyzed here as a heat balance process in which Earth is warmed by the Sun and cooled by outer space. For a million years these heat flows were in balance, but burning fossil fuels has upset the radiative equilibrium as combustion products accumulated in the atmosphere. 

The process-control-based analysis shows that Earth’s heating should be reduced and its cooling increased, yet the opposite is occurring: Earth’s temperature is rising faster than ever before, and the greenhouse effect that blocks some of Earth’s radiation from escaping into outer space is larger than any time in centuries. The analysis also shows that global warming will accelerate when the tipping points of the gigantic feedback loops (ocean degassing, ice cover melting, permafrost methane release, clouding increase, etc.) are triggered.