Unnaturally splendid weather in Northern Europe and Britain and a stupendous stretch of dry, sunny days in much of the United States were last summer's pointers to the year's weightiest technical development for the electric power sector: the growing confidence among atmospheric scientists in their computer models' warnings that the Earth will warm up markedly over the next century. This paper presents an overview of the power generation-based global warming argument and highlights how: global warming scenarios have gained credibility; international rivalry has quickened in power supply; combined-cycle power plants have attained record efficiencies; and how technical gains have strengthened the renewable energy sector.
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William Sweet (1996) studied this question.