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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
and futurism, 43
and Greenland, 63
and melting sea ice, 47–49
and oil prices, 43, 48
and Reason Foundation, 104
and Rotterdam Climate Campus, 230
scenario planning in, 30, 42–45, 49–52, 58–59
and Scramble, 44–45, 50–52, 58, 59
shifting priorities of, 57–59
and Snøhvit, 53–54
and water rights, 131–32
Royal Society, 265
Russia:
and Arctic claims, 32, 35–37
and global warming profits, 37
and Kyoto Protocol, 21
and land deals, 4, 144, 152, 153
and natural gas, 22
petroleum fields of, 33
stockpiling snow, 85
S2C Global Systems, 122
Saint Lucia, 220
St. Petersburg, storm-surge barrier for, 232
salinity, 65, 195, 198
Salter, Stephen, 266, 269, 273, 275
Salter Sink, 273–75
San Diego, water for, 117, 124–26, 130
sandstone, creation of, 222–23, 227
Sarr, Pape, 161–64, 168–70, 175–79
Saudi Arabia, and land deals, 144, 162
Schroder Global Climate Change Fund, 4, 107, 153
Schwartz, Peter, 30, 41–42, 43, 50, 59, 148, 203
Schwarzenegger, Arnold, 100
Schwarzer, Axel, 2
Scitor Corporation, 204
sea ice, melting, see Arctic
sea levels:
and disappearing island nations, 64–65, 215–21
rising, 193–97, 221–24, 225–29, 233–34
secession theory, 66–67, 77
seismic survey, 48
Senegal, 161–72
Great Green Wall, 162–64, 167–71, 175–79, 184–86
and land deals, 162
Serco Group, 174
Sermeq Kujalleq glacier, 77
Seven Sisters oil companies, 43
Seychelles, 64
Shell, see Royal Dutch Shell
Shields, Todd, 125, 126–28
Shishmaref village, Alaska, 19
Siachen Glacier, 66
silicon, 59
silver iodide, 87, 88, 259–61
Singapore, and water, 92
Singh, A. K., 205
skiing, indoor, 80–81, 232
Ski-Trac, 80
Slater, Jim, 153
Smith, Adam, 112
Snaefellsjökull volcano, 122
Snell, John, 236–38
Snøhvit (Snow White), 53–55
Snow Dragon, 31
snowmaking, 80–82, 85, 89, 261
SnowWorld Landgraaf, Netherlands, 80
Snowy Hydro, 261
solar power, 3, 58, 59
solar radiation management (SRM), 266, 269–72, 279, 280
South Lakes Glacier, 74
South Platte River, 130
South Sudan, 140, 143, 147, 148, 152, 154, 157, 159
sovereignty:
in the Arctic, 15–19, 24, 34
climate change as threat to, 136
and disappearing islands, 221
in Greenland, 63–64, 67, 71–72
redefining, 137
Soviet Union, breakup of, 143, 151
Spain:
and African migrants, 167, 173
and desalination, 167
drought in, 86, 92, 167, 221
tourism in, 168
water imports in, 87
Spork, Otto, 122
Spragg, Terry, 122–24
Spragg Bag, 122–24
Springdale, Arkansas, 219–20
SRI International, 43
Stalin, Joseph, 177
statehood, legal thresholds for, 217–19
Statoil, 45, 53, 54
Sterile Insect Technique (SIT), 242
Stern, Lord Nicholas, 20
Economics of Climate Change, 5
Stoffman, Rafi, 82, 85, 89–90
Stratospheric Shield, 272–73, 274, 280
stress nexus, 58
“string of pearls,” 271
Strong, Sergeant (pseud.), 22, 24, 29, 33, 34–35, 38, 39, 217
Sudan:
civil war in, 141, 143, 147, 149, 155, 159
famine in, 149
and land deals, 140, 144, 152
petroleum production in, 147
water in, 148, 154
Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA), 139, 141
Suez Canal, 120
Summers, Adam B., 104
Summit Global Management, 118–22, 133, 134
Summit Water Development Group, 121, 130–31, 132
SuperFreakonomics (Levitt and Dubner), 275
sustainability, 219
Swiss Re, 4
Switzerland, borders of, 66, 85
Syngenta, 3, 246
Tandou Limited, 134
Tanzania, and land deals, 144
tectonic movement, 194
Tegreene, Casey, 261–65, 269, 272, 275, 277
Teller, Edward, 216, 258, 260, 265, 285–86
Terrapin, 120
Tessel, Moshe, 82, 84–85, 91
Thermo-Gel fire retardant, 103
Thule Air Base, 72
Tibet:
government in exile, 218
melting glaciers in, 87
Tietmeyer, Hans, 143
tragedy of the commons, 7–8
TraitMill process, 250
Trans-Alaska Pipeline, 48
True North Gems, 73
trusteeships, 218
Tuvalu, 64, 65, 226
Tyndall, John, 5
Tyson Foods, 219–20
UBS, 118
Ukraine, and land deals, 4, 140, 144, 151, 152, 153
United Arab Emirates, and land deals, 144
United Nations:
climate process of, 217
and disappearing island nations, 215, 226
Global Environment Facility (GEF), 170
United States:
and Arctic claims, 32
and Canadian cooperation, 26
Dust Bowl in, 177
intelligence community in, 37, 204
and Law of the Sea, 32
national-security issue in, 29–33
and natural gas, 22
and Northwest Passage, 26, 31
water rights in, 125–27, 129–33
University of Washington, 279–80
Uruguay, and land deals, 144, 153
U.S. Arctic Research Commission, 30–33
U.S. Geological Survey, 63
Vancouver Olympics (2010), 85
van de Camp, Paul, 227
van der Veer, Jeroen, 44–45, 49, 51
VectoBac, 239
Venice, storm-surge barrier for, 232
Veolia, 3, 88
Verbier, Switzerland, 80
Verne, Jules, 13, 122
Vietnam, 144, 199, 260
Villaraigosa, Antonio, 111
Viterra, 3, 153
volcanoes, 258, 266, 270, 279–80
Vonnegut
, Bernard, 259
Wack, Pierre, 41, 42–43, 50
Walker cell, 194
war games, 203–4
water:
as asset class, 119, 121, 134
availability of, 24–25, 117–38
bag and drag men, 122–24
and cloud seeding, 87–88, 92, 110, 259–61
conservation of, 25, 133
desalination of, 58, 83, 84, 85, 88–91, 122, 167, 221
and drought, see drought
evaporation of, 92, 134
export of, 24–25, 64
and farmland, 148
flooding, 64, 196–97, 205, 233
and fracking, 131–32
hydrocommerce, 120–21
hydropower, 64, 86
markets for, 10–11, 118–22, 129–37
and melting glaciers, 85–86, 87
and melting sea ice, 64–66
as “petroleum of next century,” 118–19
salt levels in, 65, 195, 198
scarcity of, 86, 118–19
in snowmaking, 81, 261
in stress nexus, 58
theft of, 90, 135
“water for arms” deal, 121
Water Asset Management, 134
Waterfind, 134
water rights, 125–27, 129–36
water treatment, investment in, 3
Watt, James, 124
wealth gap, 288
weather loach (fish), 224
Webber, Simon, 107–8
Weber, Elke, 7
West Bengal, 194, 204
Whistler ski area, 80
Whitewater, 92
Wiener, Levi, 92, 93
Wildfire Defense Systems, 103
Wildlife Conservation Society, 252
Willis Group, 110
Wilson, Joseph, 145
windborne debris, 231
wind power, 3, 58, 59, 68, 221
Wolfe, Art, 258
Wood, Lowell, 258, 261, 265, 268, 271, 272, 274–75
World Climate Conference (1979), 5
World Health Organization, 90
World Water SA, 124
World Wildlife Fund, 46
Yampa River, 131–32
yellow fever, 235–36
Young, Mike, 132–33
Zaandam, floating prison, 227, 230
Zahiruddin (char), 200–201
Zarchin, Alexander, 83, 84, 87, 91, 92
Zennström, Niklas, 109
Zermatt, Switzerland, 85
Zionism, 86
Zugspitze glacier, 80