Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming (43 page)

McKenna Long & Aldridge, 240

McKeown, Ryder, 24, 26

Madagascar, and land deals, 140, 144

magical thinking, 285

Mahikari, Sukyo, 170–71, 178, 181, 184

malaria, 245, 247, 256, 257

Maldive Islands, 226

and rising seas, 64, 65, 218, 220, 227–28

tsunami (2004) in, 3

Mallia, Emmanuel, 180–81

Malta, 171–74, 179–84

African refugees in, 172–74, 180–84

population density of, 179–80

Safi Barracks in, 182–84

Malthusian economics, 118, 144

Manavgat River, 121, 123, 124

Manhattan,
25

Mann, Michael, 267

Maplecroft, 205, 222

Marshall Islands, and rising seas, 64, 216–20, 224, 226

Martin, Paul, 153

Matip, Gabriel, 139–42, 147, 150, 155, 156–58

Matip, General Paulino, 139–42, 149–51, 156, 157, 158

Matterhorn, and glaciers, 65–66

Meghna River, 195, 196, 199, 200

methane, sources of, 32

Met Office, U.K., 266, 279

Mexicali Valley, 126–29

Mexico:

and All-American Canal, 125–29, 167

and Colorado River Compact, 125

U.S. border with, 125, 127

Micronesian atolls, 216, 220

mineral rights:

and Arctic petroleum, 16, 32–33, 47

in Greenland, 63, 72–75, 76

of small island states, 218–19

Minot, Nicholas, 145–46

MITIE Group, 174

mitigation, 10, 111, 211, 267

MMS (Minerals Management Service), 55–56

Mogadishu, Somalia, 30

Moncton,
27–29, 33, 38

Mongolia, and land deals, 144

Monsanto:

and drought-resistant crops, 3, 22, 246

and Gates Foundation, 245, 247

and GMOs, 199, 210, 243, 247, 250

law firm of, 240

monsoons, 196, 205, 279, 280

Montreal,
16, 17–18, 21, 22–24, 27, 38–39

Moonraker (hedge fund), 122

mosquitoes:

and Gates Foundation, 245, 247, 256

genetically modified (GM), 236–45, 247, 250–53

mosquito zapper, 257–58

MOTT: Men of the Trees, 177

Mount Pinatubo, 258, 270, 279

Mungune, Magueye, 175–77

Munich Re, 4, 107–8, 109–10

Murray-Darling River, 118, 123, 132, 133–34, 136, 144, 261

Murrin, David, 154

Muscat, Josie, 181

Myhrvold, Nathan, 255–59, 261–64, 268, 269–79

NASA, 5, 28, 205

Nasheed, Mohamed, 65

National Academy of Sciences, 265

National Center for Atmospheric Research, 279

National Defense University, 203

National Geographic Society, 252

National Intelligence Council (NIC), 30, 37, 204

National Water Carrier, 87, 90

nation ex situ (trusteeship), 218

NATO, 26

natural gas, 16, 22, 53–55

Nauru, 220

Naval War College, 203

NAWAPA (North American Water and Power Alliance), 25, 128

N’Dour, Youssou, 168

Negev Desert, 87, 90, 92

Netanyahu, Benjamin, 92

Netherlands:

and land reclamation, 221–22

and rising sea levels, 221–24, 225–29, 234

and Room for the River, 223–24, 233

windmills of, 221

New Orleans, 231, 232

Newton, George, 31, 32–33

New York City:

exhibition in, 1–3

and land reclamation, 222

protection of, 10

vulnerability to storm surges, 219, 232, 233–34

New York University, “Against the Deluge” conference, 232–34

Nile River, 147–48, 154, 280

NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), 20

NORAD, 26

Nordic Water Supply, 124

Northeast Passage (Northern Sea Route), 54, 284

North Pole, 68

North Slope oil, 25, 46

Northwest Passage, 15–40

first crossing of, 17

ice-free, 35

as international strait, 31

legal arguments over, 31

new shipping lanes in, 16

tourism in, 28–29, 31, 34

Norway:

and Arctic claims, 32, 37

and natural gas, 22

Oljefondet (Oil Fund) of, 53–54

and Snøhvit (Snow White), 53–55

Norwegian People’s Aid, 149

Novim Group, 268–69

nuclear energy, demand for, 47, 263

Nunalivut exercise (2006), 17

Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated, 16

Obama, Barack, 265, 269, 286

ocean acidification, 265, 273–74

oil spills, 38, 46, 123, 278

OK’S Cascade Company, 102

Olam International, 134

Olthuis, Koen, 224–28

One Earth Farms, 153

Operation Cast Lead, 89

Operation Lancaster, 15–19, 22–24, 27, 38–40

Operation Popeye, 260

Operation Rainfall, 87

Ophir, Avraham, 82–85, 86

Overdiepse Polder, 223–24

Oxitec, 236, 240–45, 250–53

Pacific Fire Guard, 103

Pacific Ocean, rising waters of, 194

Pacific Proving Grounds, 216

Pakistan:

and Bangladesh, 191, 206

and land deals, 144

and melting glaciers, 66, 205

Palau, 220

Palestine, 89–90

Palm Islands, 227

Papua New Guinea, 19, 65

Paraguay, and land deals, 144

Parenti, Christian, 166

Parsons, Los Angeles, 25, 128

patent:

filing, 246, 264–65, 277–78

lawsuits, 278, 279

life of, 263

Payne, Susan, 154

Peary, Robert, 68

Peferoen, Marnix, 248–50

Penn, Sean, 145

Pergam Finance, 153

permafrost, 32

Phantom Works, 269

Philippines, and land deals, 144

Phos-Chek fire retardant, 103, 105, 246

Pictet, 120

Pinatubo option, 258, 265, 266, 279

Pitt, Brad, 231

Pitztal Glacier, 79–81, 85

Plan África, 167

Podesta, John, 203

Point Hope, 285–87

polar bears, 19, 34, 39, 46, 56, 70

polar ice cap,
see
Arctic

Polar Sea,
25

population growth, 146, 204

Poseidon Resources, 88

Poznan Climate Change Conference (2008), 110

Precision Aviation, 102

Project Chariot, 286

Project Cirrus, 260

Property and Environment Research Center, 133

Prudhoe Bay, 46, 48

Putin, Vladimir, 37

Pyrenees, glaciers in, 86

Qatar, and land deals, 144

Quadra Mining, 73

Quest, 58

radiative forcing, 270

Rahman, Atiq, 196, 211–12

rainmaking,
see
cloud seeding

Rand, Ayn, 145

Rand Corporation, 42, 122

Reason Foundation, 104

Red Cross, 66

Reid, Harry, 127

Reisner, Marc,
Cadillac Desert,
119, 121, 126

RenaissanceRe, 110

Repsol, 56–57

rice:

genetically modified, 248–50

salt-tolerant, 198–99

RIDL (release of insects carrying a dominant lethal), 242–44

riparian law, 129

Risk Management Solutions (RMS), 108

river delta cities, 222, 230

Robock, Alan, 279–80

Romania, and land deals, 144, 152

Rothschild, Lord Jacob, 153

Rotterdam, 228–32

Connecting Delta Cities, 230

Maeslantkering storm-surge barrier, 229, 233

Rotterdam Climate Campus, 230

Roundup weed killer, 246

Royal Boskalis, 3

Royal Canadian Mounted Police, 23

Royal Dutch Shell, 41–59

and Alaska lease sale, 53, 55–57, 286–87

and Arctic Frontiers conference, 45–47

and Blueprints, 44–45, 49–51, 53, 59