Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming (41 page)

biotechnology, 249–50

Blaauw, Robert Jan, 45, 47–49

Black, George, 210

Black Angel fjord, 73, 74, 77–78

Black Earth Farming, 153

BlackRock, 153

Blue Sky Water Partners, 134

Boeing, 269

Borlaug, Norman, 249

BP, 43, 104, 230

BRAC, 210

Brahmaputra River, 189–90, 193, 195, 196, 199

Brazil:

and land deals, 140, 144, 153

and mosquitoes, 243

Brock, Stan, 103

Buffett, Warren, 263

Buiter, Willem, 118, 121

Buoyant Foundation Project, 231

Buriganga River, 197–98

Burma, border of, 191

Bush, George W., 29, 55

Busuttil, Simon, 171–74

Byers, Michael, 24, 25, 26–27, 128

Cain, James P., 71

Caldeira, Ken, 265, 266, 268, 272, 273, 275

Cal Fire, 102

California:

drought in, 100

fires in, 97–107

insurance in, 108–9

water for, 125, 127–28, 130

Cambodia, and land deals, 144

Cameroon, and land deals, 144

Campbell-Purdie, Wendy, 163, 177

Canada:

and Arctic claims, 32

and Arctic traffic control, 25

First Nations tribes, 153

increased growing days in, 21, 152, 153

Inuit in, 67–68

and Kyoto Protocol, 21

and Law of the Sea, 36

and natural gas, 22

and Northwest Passage, 15–19, 25–27, 32

sovereignty of, 15–19, 27, 67

tar sands in, 21, 52, 58, 263–64

and U.S. cooperation, 26

water in, 24–25

Canary Islands, 164, 165, 168, 172

Cancún Climate Change Conference (2010), 10

Cantwell, Maria, 255–59

cap-and-trade system, 44, 45, 59

Cape York Peninsula, 136

carbon dioxide emissions:

and CCS, 49–51, 53, 58, 59

cutting, 7, 10, 217

and lawsuits, 110

levels of, 5, 32, 52, 92, 199, 210

and melting sea ice, 45

and plant growth, 21

sources of, 52, 191, 204–5

trading scheme, 151–52, 212

Carteret Islands, 64, 65

Cassar, Joseph, 181

Cato Institute, 133

Causeway Water Fund, 134

Cayman Islands, 243–44

CCS (carbon capture and storage), 49–51, 53, 58, 59

Center for a New American Security, 203–4

Center for Naval Analysis, 30

Centra Technology, 204

CH2M Hill, 123

Chacaltaya glacier, 80

Chaffey, George, 125

Chernobyl, 260

Cherrapunji, 213

Chevron, 63, 65

Chilingarov, Artur, 35, 36, 37

China:

cloud seeding in, 87–88, 260

energy demands of, 47, 50

floods in, 119

Great Wall of, 176–77

and Greenland, 72

and land deals, 144

megadams in, 195

and Northwest Passage, 31

rivers diverted in, 87

water shortages in, 144, 152

Chowdhury, Atiqul Islam (Atique), 197–202, 205, 209

Chubb insurance, 103

Chukchi Sea, 36, 48, 285–87

Lease Sale 193: 49, 55–57, 286–87

Church, John, 194

CIA, 72, 268

Citigroup, 118, 121

Climatic Consequences: Investment Implications of a Changing Climate,
21

Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, 238

Clean Air Act, 271

Climate Change Vulnerability Index, 205, 222

Climate Corporation, 109

climate lawsuits, 65, 110, 218, 263

climate refugee law, 219

climate remediation, 266–69

cloud seeding:

and hurricane modification, 110, 260

and rainmaking, 87–88, 92, 259–61

and rain prevention, 260

and snowmaking, 261

and solar radiation management, 266

Club of Rome,
Limits to Growth,
3

coal, sources of, 32, 46, 52

COAST, 197, 210

Colbert Report, The,
203

Coles, Terry, 108

Colorado River, 86, 117–18, 121, 125–26, 131

Colorado River Compact (1922), 125

Columbia Law School, island nations conference, 215–21

ConocoPhillips, 45, 46, 57, 65

continental shelf, 32, 36

Copenhagen Climate Change Conference (2009), 10, 68, 110, 217, 226, 266, 274

Corrections Corporation of America, 174

Credit Suisse, 118, 120

CropDesign, 249–50

Cyclone Aila, 196, 201

Cyclone Sidr, 196, 200, 201–3

Cypress Mountain, Canada, 85

Daffern, Tim, 74–75

Davidge, Ric, 124

Dead Sea, 90

Deepwater Horizon, 55

Delta Works, 221

dengue fever, 217, 235–43, 244, 250

Dengue Vaccine Initiative, 245

Denmark:

and Arctic claims, 32

and Greenland, 36, 61, 67–68, 70–71, 73

and Law of the Sea, 36

desalination, 58, 83, 84, 85, 88–91, 122, 167, 221

desertification, 131, 146, 162–63, 167, 233

Deutsche Bank, 5

“The Investment Climate Is Changing” event, 1–3

investment funds of, 2, 3, 88, 153, 245

Devon Island, 17, 23, 27–29, 33–35, 39–40

Dickerson, John, 118, 119–21, 129–33

DiGiovanna, Chief Sam, 97–107, 110–11, 114, 115–16

Dircke, Piet, 229, 231, 232, 233

directional drilling, 48

Disney, Walt, 259

Doyle, Michael, 238–41

drought, 118, 144, 203

and cloud seeding, 261

and desalination, 88, 221

and desertification, 131, 167

engineering solutions for, 86, 92–93

and fires, 100, 101–2

and food crisis, 133

and food prices, 152

and sale of water rights, 131–36

and volcanoes, 279–80

Dubai, coastline of, 227

Dubner, Stephen, 275

Duncan, Sara, 247

Duoyuan Global Water, 3

Dutch Docklands, 225–28

DynCorp International, 102

Ecofin fund, 134

Egede, Hans, 67

Egypt:

famine in, 280

farmland in, 147–48

Ellesmere Island, 19, 32, 36

Emergent Asset Management, 153–54

Emma Maersk,
233

Endangered Species Act, 46

energy independence, 52

energy sources, 47–48, 50–52, 58

Enewetak Atoll, 220

Enlightenment, 86

Enoksen, Hans, 71

Eqecat, 108

Ethiopia:

Blue Nile in, 148

food aid to, 148

and land deals, 140, 144, 148

European Border Surveillance System, 167

Exercise Frozen Beaver, 17

extinction, 208, 252

ExxonMobil, 45, 63, 65, 104, 267

Exxon Valdez,
123, 278

F&C Global Climate Opportunities Fund, 4, 108

Farakka Barrage, India, 195

Farmers Insurance, 103, 104–6, 115

Feinstein, Dianne, 127

FEMA, 238

fire, 99–102

Great Fire of London, 112, 114

and insurance, 98, 102–10, 114

Firebreak Spray Systems, 102–4, 105, 109, 275

firefighting, public vs. for-profit, 97-107, 111–12, 114–15

FireIce gel, 103

Fireman’s Fund, 103

Fireprotec, 103

fishing:

in Greenland, 63–64, 68

in Senegal, 165–66

and small island states, 218–19

Fleming, James,
Fixing the Sky,
260

Floating Proverb, 227

FloodBreak, 233

food crisis, 133, 140, 144, 146, 201, 210

food prices, 52, 58, 144, 152, 161, 201

forests:

deforestation, 58

and parasitic larvae, 101

and wildfire, 101–2