Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming (42 page)

fossil fuels, 47, 52

fracking, 131–32

Francis, Pope, 172

Franco, Francisco, 167

Franklin, Benjamin, 266, 280

Friends of the Earth, 66, 240

Friis, Janus, 109

Frontex, 167, 171, 173–74

Fulton, Mark, 2–3

Fund for Innovative Climate and Energy Research (FICER), 268, 269

futurism, 43, 58–59

G4S, 174

Gabriel, Peter, 43

Gadet, Peter, 150–51, 157, 159

Gadhafi, Moammar, 171, 173, 183

Galahad Gold, 153

gambusia (fish), 238

Ganges (Padma) River, 195, 196, 199

Gates, Bill, 244–45, 256, 263, 268, 269, 275

Gates Foundation, 244–45, 247, 256, 257

GelTech fire retardant, 103

genetic modification (GM):

abiotic stress tolerance, 246–47

crops, 3, 199, 210, 243, 246–50, 252

mosquitoes, 236–45, 247, 250–53

opponents of, 246

patents on, 246

production facilities, 248–53

reengineering humans, 252

RIDL, 242–44

suicide genes, 236

genomics, 247

geoengineering, 30, 258–59, 262–81

Gerrard, Michael, 215, 217

Gershonowitz, Yitzhak, 92, 93

GEUS, 69–71, 73, 74

Ghoramara Island, 19

Gingrich, Newt, 267

glacier melt, 65–66, 79–83, 86, 87, 205

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), 245

Gobi Desert, 176–77

Golden Valley Fire Suppression, 103

Goldman Sachs, 118, 145, 234

Goodell, Jeff,
How to Cool the Planet,
268

Gore, Al, 2, 146

An Inconvenient Truth,
5, 21, 118, 119

Grayback Forestry (GFP Enterprises), 102

Great Green Wall, 162–64, 167–71, 175–79, 184–86

Greece, 101, 173

Greenberg, Maurice “Hank,” 113, 143

greenhouse gases:

accounting for, 20, 44

and CCS, 49–51, 53, 58, 59

Kyoto Protocol on, 21, 44

threat of, 32, 45, 47, 51

Greenland, 61–78

and climate change profitability, 62, 74, 76

and Denmark, 36, 61, 67–68, 70–71, 73

fish in, 63–64, 68

land rising in, 66, 77–78

melting ice cap of, 64–66, 77, 194, 284

Niaqornat meeting, 75–77

petroleum and minerals in, 63, 72–75, 76, 154

and self-governance, 62–64, 66–67, 68, 71–72, 77, 78, 122, 154, 216

Thule Air Base in, 72

Greenlandic language, 63

Greenland Minerals and Energy, 73

Greenland Sustainable Mineral and Petroleum Development Conference, 72–73

Greenpeace, 57

Green Revolution, 249

Greenstar, 228

Gurdjieff, Georges, 41

Hadley cell, 131, 194

Hall, Nick, 73

Hammerfest, Norway, 53–55

Hammond, Aleqa, 71

Hansen, James, 5

Hans Island, 17, 22, 24, 34, 36, 217

Hanson, Ann Meekitjuk, 23

Harman, Willis, 43

Harper, Stephen, 17, 21, 58

Heffernan, Bill, 136–37

Heilberg, Phil, 139–51, 152, 154–59

Himalayas, glacier melt in, 86

Holland America Line, 229, 230

Hollis, Leo, 112

Homestead Acts, 129–30

Hoover Institution, 258

Hoque, Enamul, 189–91, 200, 205–9, 212

Horner, Jack, 270

Horsfall, Sophie, 4

Howard, John, 136

Hudson Institute, 42

Hudson Resources, 73

Human Rights Watch, 149, 192

hurricanes:

Hurricane Andrew, 108

Hurricane Ivan, 239

Hurricane Katrina, 108, 222, 238

Hurricane King, 260

Hurricane Sandy, 215, 219, 232, 233–34, 284, 287

and insurance, 4, 98, 108, 110, 238

and ocean temperatures, 196

research into, 110

suppression of, 260, 273–75

and windborne debris, 231

hydrogen energy, 58

hydropower, 64, 86

hyperbolic discounting, 7

IBM, 230

ice albedo feedback effect, 21

Iceberg Transport International Ltd., 122

Iceland:

volcanic eruptions in, 280

water from, 122

IDE (Israel Desalination Enterprises), 82–85, 88–89

All Weather Snowmaker, 81–82, 85

creation of, 84

IID (Imperial Irrigation District), 126

India:

and Bangladesh, 167, 190–92, 197, 204–9, 210, 212

Border Security Force (BSF), 192–93, 207–9

carbon emissions of, 191, 204–5

drought in, 280

energy demands of, 47, 50

and land deals, 144, 162

and melting glaciers, 66, 205

and refugees, 191, 204, 206–10

Indian Ocean, rising waters of, 194

Indonesia, and land deals, 144

Inherent Land Quality Assessment, 152

insurance:

and climate change, 4, 98, 99, 107–10

FEMA/flood, 238

and fire, 98, 102–10, 114

and hurricanes, 4, 98, 108, 110, 238

policies dropped, 108, 238

rate hikes, 108

reinsurance, 108–10

windstorm, 238

Intellectual Ventures (IV), 256–57, 260, 261–65, 266, 268, 270–74, 278–79, 280

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 2, 20, 66, 194, 266, 267, 276

International Food Policy Research Institute, 146

International Organization for Migration (IOM), 210, 219

Inuit:

Canadian and U.S. treatment of, 67–68

and climate change, 23–24

lawsuit of, 110

and Northwest Passage, 17, 23, 33–34

Inupiat Eskimos, 55, 56, 285

investment opportunities, 2–4, 21–22, 88, 118–21, 151–54, 263–64, 269

island nations, disappearing, 64–65, 215–21, 226

islands, artificial, 217, 225–28

Israel:

cloud seeding in, 92

desalination in, 84, 88–91, 221

and IDE, 82, 84, 88–89

and immigrants, 167

water technology in, 91–93

Italy:

borders of, 66, 85

immigrants to, 173–74

Jacob, Klaus, 219

Jarch Capital, 143, 148–49, 150

JASONs, 268–69

Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS), 180

John Deere, 22

Jordan River, 87, 90

Joseph, Doctor, 156–57

Kahn, Herman, 42

Karimov, Islam, 143

Kazakhstan, and land deals, 144, 152

Kennedy, Don, 65

Kenya:

drought in, 149

and land deals, 144

Keynes, John Maynard, 6

Key West, 236–38, 240–41, 243, 250

Khosla, Vinod, 109

Kiewit Corporation, 264

Kiir, Salva, 140–41, 154

Kiribati (Gilbert Islands), 64, 65, 220, 226

Kissinger, Henry A., 25

Kitzbühel, Austria, 80

Kleist, Mininnguaq (Minik), 62–64, 66–69, 71, 75–78, 194, 216

Knights of Malta, 179

Koch brothers, 104, 133

Koonin, Steve, 268–69

Korea, and land deals, 144

Kulluk,
48, 216, 286–87

Kuwait, and land deals, 144

Kyl, Jon, 127

Kyoto Protocol (1997), 21, 44, 50, 53, 54, 212, 267

Lake Havasu, 117

Landkom, 153

Langmuir, Irving, 259

Latham, John, 266, 269, 275

Law of the Sea treaty, 31–32

Article 76 submissions under, 36–37

and island states, 217, 218, 220

Levitt, Steven, 275

Liao, S. Matthew, 252

libertarianism, 113, 115, 133, 150

Liberty Mutual, 110

Lomonosov Ridge, 36

London:

fire insurance in, 114

Great Fire in, 112, 114

storm-surge barrier for, 232

London Array, 58

Los Angeles:

growth of, 101–2

water for, 117

Los Angeles Fire Department, 106, 107, 111

Luthi, Randall, 55–56

Maas (Meuse) River, 223–24