From climate change to the Anthropocene, carbon neutrality, and the energy revolution
Starting a 'good study' for the Earth

Strongly recommended by heads of environmental organizations such as the Polar Research Institute and the Korean Meteorological Society.

In October 2020, our country also joined the "2050 Carbon Neutrality" declaration by world leaders.
This means reducing greenhouse gases on a large scale by reducing carbon emissions to zero, thereby turning around the warming Earth.
But is zero carbon emissions even possible? Or, if it weren't for humans, wouldn't the Earth be as hot as it is now?

"We Will Ultimately Find the Answer for the Earth" is a book written by polar expert and climate scientist Baekmin Kim, who meticulously explores all the questions surrounding the Earth's climate based on science and facts, and further explores the coexistence of the Earth and humanity.
You can encounter interesting climate stories that span 4.5 billion years of Earth's history, such as what kind of climate change the Earth experienced before the birth of mankind, whether the greenhouse gases emitted by humans are really so great that they raise the Earth's temperature, and whether humans, who are already well adapted to the cold of -10 degrees Celsius in winter and the heat of +40 degrees Celsius in summer, will face extinction like the dinosaurs just because the Earth's temperature increases by just 1 degree Celsius. You can encounter these interesting climate stories that span 4.5 billion years of Earth's history, along with various and rich visual materials.


Now, working for the environment is not a choice but a duty.
The author published this book in the hope that humans living on Earth will recognize the severity of the climate crisis and prepare for it based on accurate factual information.
If you're wondering whether you should 100% believe the dire future scientists predict, if you're someone who wants to put their heads together and find solutions for the future instead of feeling guilty about being the main culprit of the climate crisis, start "good study" to protect the Earth with this book now.

Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased from 0.028% before the Industrial Revolution to 0.04% today.
What's so significant about a mere 0.012% increase? It's said that global temperatures have risen by 1℃ since the Industrial Revolution.
Is that really that important? Aren't we already accustomed to living in temperatures as low as -10°C in winter and as high as 40°C in summer? Is a mere 1°C increase really that significant? What do you think? Even a single step forward raises a host of troubling questions in climate science.
Many books on climate change published to date have failed to answer this simple yet difficult question, leaving the public with only a superficial understanding of global warming.
In this book, I will delve into the mysterious truth about global warming with you, like a detective.
Armed with the hard truths about global warming, in the final chapter we'll explore what humanity needs most to find answers for our planet.
So, shall we begin our journey together to explore the dynamic climate change within our mysterious planet?
---From "Starting"

There is one lesson we can learn from looking at Venus.
A closer look at Venus's thermostat, which failed to handle the increasingly hot sun, reveals that what humans are doing now could be damaging Earth's thermostat in other ways.
This is done by digging up and burning fossil fuels, ancient organic matter trapped underground, thus raising the Earth's temperature.
At a rate faster than any known natural process in the last 4.5 billion years.
Humans have begun to regulate the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, which nature has been slowly regulating for billions of years.
It's just embarrassing for Earth.
---「Chapter 1.
From "There was a world 10℃ hotter than now"

Highly developed human civilization has brought about a tremendous increase in population.
The human population is now more than twice the number of all large terrestrial vertebrates that have ever existed on Earth combined.
Compared to before the Industrial Revolution, the population has increased tenfold.
In just 200 years.
The problem is that most of the artifacts created by highly developed human civilization do not return to nature, but remain as residue or waste somewhere on Earth for a long time, leaving an ugly residue.
Like a mountain of scrap tires or a mountain of trash.
The massive landfills that inevitably exist wherever humans live will prove the existence of humanity even if we become extinct.
A pile of plastic that doesn't decompose even after thousands, if not tens of thousands, of years underground.
Humanity, obsessed with accumulating personal wealth, is too stingy to consider how much non-biodegradable waste is being generated by cities, boasting towering buildings and skyscrapers that are icons of civilization, and how this is harming the planet.
In this sense, the artificial byproducts that exist wherever humanity has set foot are perfectly suited to defining a new geological concept: the Anthropocene.
This is because a plastic layer was created that is different from the Holocene, which began with agricultural culture 10,000 years ago.
In fact, there are scholars who argue that the Anthropocene, the era of humanity, should be introduced from a geological perspective, and they cite radioactive substances, atmospheric carbon dioxide, plastics, and concrete as representative substances of the Anthropocene.
From chickens, of which 60 billion are consumed every year
Some consider the bones to be the greatest geological feature of the Anthropocene.

---Chapter 3.
From "What are humans doing to the Earth?"

2020 was a truly difficult year for humanity, which had been making progress.
An unprecedented situation occurred in which many shops and factories closed and most airplanes were grounded.
Because COVID-19 has swept the world.
Tens of thousands of people died each day, and people spent their time terrified at home.
As I write this in April 2021, we are preparing to escape the fear of COVID-19 through vaccines, but we still tremble in the face of a disaster that is not over yet.
We are learning a lot from COVID-19.
Among them, there is an important message related to climate change.
After a tumultuous year, scientists report that carbon dioxide equivalent greenhouse gas emissions in 2020 were only 2.3 billion tonnes lower than in 2019.
In other words, in 2020, when we thought everything had come to a halt, humanity emitted a little over 48 billion tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, not much different from the 51 billion tons (2019 carbon dioxide emissions).
A British research team found that the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions due to COVID-19 only lowered the global average temperature by about 0.01℃.
I agree with Bill Gates's comment that "ending COVID-19 is a lot easier than stopping climate change," comparing the response to COVID-19 and climate change.
---「Chapter 4.
Are we really the culprits of global warming?

Today, countless climatologists like myself are making small, incremental progress through the vast forest of uncertainty, trying to improve upon the methods of predicting the future pioneered by scientists of the past.

A planet that will soon be 3 degrees hotter if we stop trying—this is the message that climate scientists, past and present, are sending to the world.
---「Chapter 6.
From "Future Prediction"

While joining the global Green New Deal movement is a call of the times, policies should not focus solely on carbon reduction.
Just as the Gyeongbu Expressway played a significant role in Korea's explosive economic growth, we must prioritize expanding energy infrastructure to efficiently store and smartly use electricity generated from renewable energy sources.
The argument is that expanding smart grid infrastructure to support electricity storage and intelligent distribution of electricity, as well as complementary energy sources that can sustain the transition to full renewable energy, may be more important than endlessly expanding solar and wind power infrastructure.
Otherwise, we will see the true face of renewable energy, which can collapse easily due to extreme weather events that can occur at any time, and it will take enormous time and effort to restart after a sudden collapse.
Therefore, we must move beyond policies focused on increasing renewable energy facilities and focus on expanding electricity infrastructure to transition to a coal-free society. We must also expand storage infrastructure, such as hydrogen fuel cells, which are useful for storing electricity.
It is also time to comprehensively review energy policies, including ways to utilize nuclear energy more safely as a stepping stone.

---Chapter 7.
From "Survival without Fossil Fuels"