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350.org, 9AAarhus University, 96ABC, 113Accumulated Cyclone Energy, 118Aerosols, 74, 95, 96, 121Africa, 39, 40, 42, 68, 157, 224Agenda 21, 141Agoumi, Ali, 157Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud, 34A Hot Planet Needs Cool Kids, 143Airbus, 29Air Passenger Duty (APD), 28Air travel, 28-29, 35Akasofu, Syun, 69Albedo, surface, 72Alcamo, Joseph, 167Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, 60Algeria, 157Allen, Myles, 123, 162Allen, Robert, 91Alpha Institute of Medical Sciences, 134Álverez, Cabriel Calzada, 214American Assoc. of Petroleum Geologists, 221American Enterprise Institute, 179American Geophysical Union (AGU), 15, 172American Meteorological Society (AMS), 15,172, 180-181American Petroleum Institute, 14

American Physical Society, 15, 155, 180-182American Wind Energy Assoc., 199Ananth, Gene, 178Anderson, Kevin, 35Andosol plant, 192-196, 200Andreev, Andrei, 60-61Andresen, Bjarne, 147A New Prosperity, Building a Sustainable Energy Future, 186An Inconvenient Truth, 7, 9, 102, 129Antarctica, 1, 68, 76, 79-80, 93, 104-106, 108, 111, 240Antarctic Ocean, 140Aquamation Industries, 228Archer Daniels Midland, 176Archer, David, 120Arctic, 68, 102-104, 106, 108, 110-111, 137-138, 222 Ocean, 104Argentina, 224Argo network, 238-239Argonne National Laboratory, 208Arnesen, Liv, 110 Asia, 29, 38, 42, 60-62, 102, 215, 218Asian Development Bank, 42Assoc. for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas, 221Athabasca Glacier, 52Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, 68, 240Atlantic Ocean, 62, 68, 74, 116, 121, 140Atmosphere, 72-74

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Aurora, 93Australia, 10-11, 32, 40, 44, 68, 89, 111, 130, 134, 143-144, 151-154, 169, 177, 224, 226- 227, 231, 236Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 143Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, 44Australian Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, 231Australian Institute of Marine Science, 139Australian National Climate Centre, 151Automobile (see vehicle)Avery, Dennis, 62-63, 67Avila, Jim, 114BBAA, 122Baige, Zhao, 33Baldwin, Alec, 30Bancroft, Ann, 110Bangladesh, 102, 124Bank of America, 40BankTrack, 40Barbieri, Frank, 234Barclays Capital, 176Bari, Judi, 34Barnett, Tim, 121Battery, 196, 211-214BBC, 103, 105, 167-168, 245Beddington, John, 125Begley Jr., Ed, 39Begley, Sharon, 115, 178Belgium, 31Bentek Industries, 199Benzie, Robert, 235Biofuel (or biodiesel), 19-20, 39, 45, 170, 176,

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Biofuels Directive, 204Blair, Tony, 9, 132, 203, 232-233BNP Paribus, 176Bolin, Bert, 96Bolivia, 34Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), 198Boulton, Geoffery, 165BP, 176

Bradley, Robert, 226Branson, Richard, 30Braswell, William, 88Brazil, 29, 32, 157, 204-206, 236, 242Briffa, Keith, 159-162, 170Britain (see United Kingdom)British Airways, 28British Antarctic Survey, 32Brown, Donald, 128Browner, Carol, 128Brown, Gordon, 156Brundtland, Gro Harlem, 177-178Bryce, Robert, 190, 195BT Financial Group, 14Bush, George W., 179, 203Business, 13, 21, 35, 43-44CC40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, 12California, 7, 68, 102, 128, 169-170, 187, 196, 232-234, 245California Energy Commission, 232Cambridge Media Environment Programme (CMEP), 167-168Cambridge University, 102Cameron, David, 11, 24, 218Cameroon, 25Campbell, Philip, 165Canada, 22, 32, 64, 111, 115, 130, 134, 137, 156-157, 166, 169, 177, 211, 222, 224-226, 230, 236, 243Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS), 15Cap-and-trade, 20, 28, 40-41, 44, 170, 175 allowances (permits), 41-42, 176, 243Capitalism, 34-35, 45Capps, Lois, 135Car (see vehicle)Carbon, 98, 130Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), 192Carbon Capture and Storage Assoc., 164Carbon credits (offsets), 28-29, 42-43, 45Carbon Cycle, 80-82Carbon dioxide (CO2), 9, 18, 23, 49-51, 53, 55, 66-67, 72-89, 91, 98-99, 110, 112, 115, 118, 128-132, 137, 139, 141-144, 152, 240

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emissions, 12, 18-25, 28-30, 32-33, 36-38, 41- 44, 47, 49, 53, 55, 71-72, 74, 77-78, 81-82, 108-109, 115, 132, 139, 169, 186, 199-201, 203-204, 209-211, 214, 217, 219, 224, 230- 231, 238, 241, 243-244Carbon Dioxide Analysis Center, 19Carbon Expo, 42Carbon, footprint, 3, 13, 29, 35, 41, 45, 110, 132 tax, 20, 44, 170 trading, 13, 20, 40, 43, 44, 176, 182Carbon monoxide (CO), 120Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC), 44Carlin, George, 17Carter, Bob, 63Carter, Jimmy, 186, 188Cato Institute, 179CBS, 141, 146Center for Disease Control, 174Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, 62, 139Centre for Policy Studies, 219CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), 96Chavez, Hugo, 34Chicago Tribune, 146China, 29, 32-33, 60-62, 120, 169, 176, 187- 188, 211, 216, 225-226, 242-243China's National Population and Planning Commission, 33Chinese Academy of Sciences, 60Chirac, Jacques, 36Chlorofluorocarbons, 42-43, 50Choi, Yong-Sang, 88Christy, John, 105Churchill, Winston, 214, 220Chu, Steven, 187Citibank (Citigroup), 40, 176Clean Air Act, 85, 128-129Clean Development Mechanism, 42Climate Action Partnership, 14Climate alarm, 4, 13, 21, 32, 35, 38, 56, 102- 103, 115-117, 120, 137, 156, 168, 173, 182Climate Audit, 66Climate change, adaptation, 39, 110, 112

mitigation, 16, 39, 110Climate Change and the Failure of Democracy, 34Climate Change: Picturing the Science, 121Climate Change Reconsidered, 242Climate conference, 38 Cancun, 18, 29, 36-37, 124-125, 242 Copenhagen, 33, 36, 109, 125, 156, 158, 175, 241-242 Durban, 13, 36-37, 166, 242-243Climategate, 2, 67, 152, 158-170, 180, 182, 242Climate Protection Agreement, 12Climate Research Unit (CRU), 48, 67, 120, 147, 152-153, 158-160, 162-163, 165-167, 169Climate Science Register, 142Climatism, definition, 2, 7Clinton, Bill, 176, 178Clinton Global Initiative, 176CLOUD project, 96Club of Rome, 21, 186CO2Science, 59, 61-62, 66, 131Coal, 19-20, 39-41, 80, 126, 128-129, 175, 185-186, 188-190, 192-196, 199-201, 209, 214, 217, 219, 222, 229Coase, Ronald, 145Coca-Cola, 138Cogley, Graham, 156Cohen, David, 220Colorado State University, 117, 181Columbia University, 7Columbus, Christopher, 58Computer models, 16, 51-53, 56, 67, 72, 74,77- 79, 82, 87, 89-91, 94, 105, 110-111, 120, 124, 138-140, 168, 171,173, 181, 238, 240, 246Conf. on the Changing Atmosphere, 15Consensus, scientific, 12Copenhagen Business School, 134Coral, 53Corporate Average Fuel Economy, 22-23Cosmic Rays, 72, 93-99, 180Credit Suisse, 176Crow, Cheryl, 30Crowley, Tom, 167Cuadrilla Resources, 224-225

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Curry, Judith, 164, 167Cycles, natural, 3, 7, 14, 16, 57, 62-63, 66-67, 69, 99, 103, 138, 238, 240 Milankovich, 62, 67, 80Cyprus, 134Czech Republic, 12, 37DD'Aleo, Joseph, 115, 153Dalton Minimum, 92Danish National Space Center, 94Dansgaard, Willi, 63De'ath, Glenn, 139-140Decarbonization, 217, 245-246Deforestation, 39, 185Delingpole, James, 124, 158Demming, David, 64Democracy, 33-35, 45Deniers, climate, 9, 177-178, 181Denmark, 20, 33, 36, 43, 93-94, 96, 137, 176, 187, 199, 202Deutsche Bank, 13-14, 176Developed (industrialized) nations, 36-38, 42, 136, 187, 241, 243Developing nations, 37-39, 42, 188, 210, 230, 241-243, 246Diesel, 185, 203-206, 210-212, 228-229, 243, 245Disease, 40, 52, 133, 136, 144, 177, 246Distillates, 229-230Doran, Peter, 141Douglas, David, 89Driessen, Paul, 40Drought, 52, 114-116, 124, 133, 157Dyson, Freeman, 74Duncan, Arne, 142Du Pont Corporation, 14EEaarth, 9Earth Day, 186Earth First, 34Earth Hour, 235Earthquake, 72, 83, 217, 225Earth Summit, 16, 36, 141, 182Earth System Research Laboratory, 49Eco-Imperialism, 40

Edenhofer, Ottmar, 37Edison, Thomas, 211Ehrlich, Anne, 18Ehrlich, Paul, 18, 32, 185, 201Einstein, Albert, 146Eisenhower, Dwight, 172Electricity, 18-21, 28, 38, 40-41, 43, 185, 187- 188, 190-191, 194-201, 205, 214-215, 218- 220, 228, 232, 234-235, 243-244, 246Electric Reliability Council of Texas, 198-199 El Mundo, 228El Niño Southern Oscillation, 67-69, 74Emanuel, Kerry, 116-118, 164Emissions Trading System (ETS), 20, 41-44Energiewende (Energy Transition), 216Energy, density, 191, 195, 205-206, 209, 212, 226 usage, 38-39, 184, 187-189, 206, 244-245Energy Information Administration, 187, 190Engerts, Gail, 233England (see United Kingdom)Environmental Defense Fund, 179Environmental Investigation Agency, 42EON Corporation, 192, 219Epps, Pat, 107-108Equator Principles, 40Eric the Red, 56Ethanol (see biofuel)Europe, 13, 16, 20, 22-23, 28-29, 32, 39, 42-44, 57-58, 62, 74, 120, 123, 126, 130, 132, 134-135, 176-177, 187, 191,197, 204, 209, 211, 214-217, 224, 242, 244-245European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA), 15, 180European Commission, Community (EC), 16 22, 36, 41, 43, 187, 203-204, 210, 241, 244European Environment Agency, 209European Union (EU), 18, 22, 25, 29-30, 42 203-204, 206, 238Evans, David, 89, 239Extinction, species, 9-10, 52, 71-72, 133, 136 138, 186Exxon Mobil, 176, 190FFalagas, Matthew, 134Falck Renewable Resources, 164

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Famines, 32Feedback, positive, 86-88Feed-in tariff, 20, 176, 187, 214, 216-217, 220Fertility rates, 32Feynman, Richard, 71Finland, 134Fischer, Hubertus, 80Fischer-Tropisch process, 229-230Flaherty, Harry, 137Flannery, Tim, 8, 10Flavin, Christopher, 188Flood, 52, 68, 101, 113-116, 124, 133, 144Florida State University, 118Fluorescent lights, 1, 17, 25, 45Folland, Chris, 111, 159-160, 162Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), 206Food prices, 206-208, 210Forcing, 9, 56, 92, 121Ford, Henry, 211Ford Motor Corporation, 14Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC), 16, 36, 241-242France, 23, 43, 134, 187, 225-226Free market, 33Friedman, Milton, 215Friends of the Earth, 40, 209Frondel, Manuel, 218Frost Fair, London, 57Fukushima incident, 217GGamesa Corporation, 176Gas (natural), 19-20, 40, 175, 185-186, 188-190, 192-196, 199-201, 205, 209, 214, 217, 219- 226, 229, 244Gasland, 225Gasoline, 20-21, 24, 185, 187, 203-206, 208- 212, 229, 243, 245Ge, Quansheng, 60-61General Circulation Model (GCM), 51General Electric (GE), 14, 21, 176General Motors (GM), 14, 212-213Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab, 87, 174George Mason University, 133, 181Georgia Institute of Technology, 83, 167Geothermal, 234

German Advisory Council on Global Change, 216German Chamber of Industry and Commerce, 218German Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Nuclear Safety, 216Germany, 11, 16, 20, 23, 28, 42-43, 123, 134 , 176, 187, 191, 199, 203-204, 214, 216-218, 225, 244Giaever, Ivar, 182Gillard, Julia, 11, 40Glacier, 53, 106, 156, 240Glacier Girl, 107-108Global governance, 35-38, 217Global Warming Petition Project, 142Golby, Paul, 219Goldwind Corporation, 176Goodstein, David, 222Gore, Al, 2-3, 5-10, 13, 20, 30, 64, 80, 102, 115, 119, 124, 126, 129, 146, 156, 162, 179, 185, 201, 209, 213 effect, 36, 124, 138, 179, 219, 240-241Graumlich, Lisa, 164Gray, William, 117, 181Great Barrier Reef, 139-140, 236Greece, 134, 187, 244Green Climate Fund, 37Greenhouse effect, 50, 53, 69, 71-72, 74, 83-88Greenhouse gas, 1-2, 6, 10-12, 14-16, 18, 20- 22, 30, 32-33, 36, 38, 42, 44, 47, 52-53, 56, 68, 72, 76-77, 91, 106, 121, 127-128, 142, 144, 154-155, 166, 169, 199, 209, 215, 230, 233, 240, 242-243Greenland, 56-57, 62-63, 76, 102, 104, 106-108, 111, 137, 240Greenland Expedition Society, 107Greenpeace, 25, 28, 42, 178, 192, 209, 222, 224Greenwald, Julie, 115Grossman, Juergen, 183Grudd, Håken, 58-59Gulledge, Jay, 123-124HHadley Centre, 48, 90, 162Hall, Julie, 143Halliday, Steve, 198

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Hammond, Allen, 221Hansen, James, 7-9, 14-15, 62, 72, 80, 88, 102, 139, 162, 222, 238-240Happer, William, 64, 132Hare, Stephen, 68Harris, Ian, 167Harvard University, 112, 126Harvey, Paul, 4Hayes, Dennis, 186Hayhoe, Kathrine, 116Health issue, 132-136Heartland Institute, 179, 242Heat wave, 16, 52, 114, 133, 144Heathrow Airport, 28-29Hedegaard, Connie, 29Heidelberg Appeal, 141-142Helm, Dieter, 226Hendry, Charles, 25Henry's Law, 82-83, 86Henry, William, 82Heritage Foundation, 179Heuer, Rolf-Dieter, 96Hewlett Foundation, 175High-speed rail, 29Hill, Alex, 121Hockey Stick Curve, 64-66, 158, 160, 166, 179- 180Hoffman, Gretchen, 140Holdren, John, 18-19, 168Holmgren, Karin, 58-59Holocene Climate Optimum, 62Honeywell, 14Hong Kong Airlines, 29Houghton, John, 64, 125, 168Hoyt, Douglas, 91-92, 95HSBC, 14Hubbert, Marion King, 220Huber, Daniel, 123-124Hudson Institute, 62Hughes, Malcolm, 162, 164Hughes, Warwick, 152Hulme, Mike, 27, 167-168Hurricane, 1, 52, 68, 114-119, 133, 240Hydraulic fracturing, 222-225, 244Hydrocarbon, 20, 38-41, 109, 176, 183-186,

188, 190, 192, 195, 199-200, 205, 209, 211, 216-220, 223, 226, 238, 243-245Hydroelectric, 20, 39, 189, 196, 200-201IIBM, 174Ice age, 2, 66-67, 72, 79-80, 82-83, 108Ice cap, 4, 7, 52-53, 76, 101-102, 104-108, 111, 240Ice cores, 75-79, 98, 107Iceland, 57Idso, Craig, 62, 139Ifft, George, 103Illarionov, Andrei, 153India, 11, 29, 68, 109, 135, 188, 226, 242-243Indian Ocean, 68, 109Indonesia, 29, 38, 58-59Inhofe, James, 180Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 5-6, 9, 14, 16, 30, 35-37, 49, 52, 56, 58, 62-67, 69, 74-77, 79, 81-82, 90-91, 93, 96, 111, 116-117, 122, 125, 135, 139, 145- 146, 152-161, 166-167, 180, 231, 237-238, 240, 241 Assessment report, 6, 14, 16, 48, 51, 56, 63- 66, 75, 79, 87-88, 110, 116, 120, 155- 162, 164-167, 170, 238-239, 241International Climate Science Coalition, 142International Energy Agency, 184, 188-189, 221International Institute of Sustainable Devel., 204International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project, 87, 95Intl. Union for Conservation of Nature, 157Iran, 34Ireland, 23Isotopes, 76Italy, 23, 134, 187Ivory Coast, 39JJackson, Lisa, 146Jamaica, 233Japan, 22-23, 29, 32, 130, 134, 176-177, 211, 217, 243Jefferson, Thomas, 225Jobs, green, 128, 214-215Jones, Philip, 152, 158-167, 170

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J.P. Morgan Chase, 40KKarl, Tom, 160, 162Keating, William, 134Keeling, Charles, 49, 74Kelkoo, 13Kerosene, 185Kettering, Charles, 211Keystone pipeline, 115Ki-moon, Ban, 36King, Alexander, 21Kingsnorth plant, 191-195, 222Kirkby, Jasper, 96Kiwigate, 152Klaus, Vacláv, 12, 37Kohler, Karl-Ulrich, 44Kopacz, Monica, 172Kouwenberg, Lenny, 78, 82Kresge Foundation, 175Krugman, Paul, 242Kyoto Protocol, 12, 16, 36-37, 42, 143, 146, 241-243LLaframboise, Donna, 157Lal, Murari, 156Landsea, Christopher, 117La Niña, 67, 116Latin America, 156Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, 162Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), 127, 234Leipzig Declaration, 142Lenin, Vladimir, 142, 144Leno, Jay, 5Lesley, J.P., 221Levelized cost, 199-200Lewis, Harold, 181Limits to Growth, 186Lincoln, Abraham, 127Lindzen, Richard, 41, 88, 120, 155Little Ice Age, 56-65, 67, 69, 82, 92, 98, 126, 136, 159Lodge, Tony, 219Lomborg, Bjorn, 33, 134London Array, 193-195

London Imperial College, 174London School of Economics, 9Los Alamos National Laboratory, 76Los Angeles Community College, 234-235Lovelock, James, 34Lovins, Amory, 185-186, 221Lucas, Caroline, 168Lynas, Mark, 177MMabus, Ray, 229Macquarie University, 10Malaysia, 236Maldives, Republic of, 109, 112Manabe, Syukuro, 87Mann, Michael, 64-66, 159-162, 164, 167, 170Marin, Pedro, 228Marsh, Nigel, 94Martin, Charlie, 171Marx, Groucho, 113Maslowski, Wieslaw, 102Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 41, 116, 155Maue, Ryan, 118Mauna Loa Observatory, 49Maunder Minimum, 92McCain, John, 172McCartney, Paul, 30McIntyre, Stephen, 66, 140, 164, 179McKibben, Bill, 8-9, 114, 119, 126McKitrick, Ross, 66, 166McLeod, Stuart, 232Medieval Warm Period, 56-67, 69, 98Medupi power station, 39-40Mencken, Henry Louis, 47Merkel, Angela, 11, 203, 216-218, 242Methane (CH4), 30-31, 50, 83-84, 142, 231Mexico, 124-125, 224, 242Middlebury College, 9Middle East, 203Milankovich, Milutin, 80Mississippi State University, 143Mitchell, Donald, 208Mitchell, George, 223Mitchell, John, 89Modern Warm Period, 48, 55-56, 62, 64, 69, 92,

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98, 147, 159-160, 180, 240Monbiot, George, 124Morales, Evo, 34Morgan Stanley, 176Morocco, 157Moscow Institute for Economic Analysis (IEA), 152-153Mount Kilimanjaro, 52NNader, Ralph, 188, 190Nasheed, Mohammed, 109National Academy of Sciences (NAS), 15, 155, 174, 180, 209, 213, 240National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA), 15, 63, 108, 118, 122, 143, 150, 160, 173, 180, 240 Goddard Institute, 7, 107, 147, 174, 238National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), 173-174, 238National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), 119, 148-149, 153, 179National Council for the Social Studies Curriculum Standards, 143National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), 151-152National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administra (NOAA), 15, 67, 117, 133, 147-148, 150-152, 160, 162, 172-174, 180, 240National Resources Defense Council, 138-139, 179National Science Education Standards, 143National Science Foundation, 53, 76, 173-174National Weather Service, 113, 181National Wildlife Federation, 179Natural Marketing Institute, 13Nature, 165Nature Conservancy, 179Naval Postgraduate School, 102Netherlands, 28, 43, 102, 134, 199, 202, 244Newman, Robert, 34Newsweek, 178New Zealand, 134, 151-152, 169New Zealand Climate Science Coalition (NZCSC), 151-153Nielsen Corporation, 24

Nigeria, 18Nirlungayuk, Gabriel, 137-138Nissan Corporation, 24, 212-213Nitrogen, 72Nitrous oxides (NOx), 50, 129, 210Nobel Prize, 5-6, 13, 156, 182, 241Nongovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 242North America, 7North Korea, 235North Pole, 74, 110-111Northwest Carbon Corporation, 231Norway, 5, 103-104, 137, 177Nova, Joanne, 97, 132Nuclear power, 20, 40, 188-190, 194-196, 199- 201, 216-219, 243, 245Nunavut Tungavik Corporation, 137Nunavut Wildlife Management Board, 137OObama, Barack, 11, 18-19, 22, 24, 29, 115, 136, 146, 154, 172, 210-211, 214, 222, 241Ocean acidification, 138-140, 144, 240Ocean heat content, 238-240Official Development Assistance, 246Oil, 19-20, 22, 24, 40-41, 115, 126, 128, 175,184- 186, 188-189, 203-206, 208-211, 217, 219- 224, 226, 229Opik, Lembit, 121Oppo, Delia, 58-59Oregon Inst. of Science and Medicine, 142Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), 186Oreskes, Naomi, 141Osborn, Tom, 160, 162Oster, Emily, 126Our Choice, 7Our Energy Future, 203Overpeck, Jonathan, 102, 111, 162, 170Oxburgh Inquiry, 164-165Oxburgh, Ronald, 164Oxfam, 209Oxygen, 72, 76-77, 131Ozone (O3), 50, 94, 129, 135, 144, 209-210PPachauri, Rajendra, 6, 30, 56, 146, 156Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), 68-69, 240

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Pacific Ocean, 58, 62, 68-69, 74, 102, 116, 140Packard Foundation, 175Pakistan, 1Palmer, Andy, 213Parker, Kevin, 13Pasteur Institute, 136Peak oil, 220-221, 244Peer review, 4, 62, 66, 82, 88, 131, 155-158, 162, 167Pell, George, 227Pelley, Scott, 141Pelosi, Nancy, 17Pennsylvania State University, 128People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), 30Peru, 67-68Peterson, Thomas, 162Petroleum (see oil)Pew Center, 115Pew Charitable Trusts, 12Photosynthesis, 77, 131pH Scale, 139Pielke Sr., Roger, 148Poland, 225-226Polar bear, 1, 16, 24, 103, 136-138, 144, 186, 228, 231, 236, 240, 246Politico, 175Pollution, 21, 38-40, 49, 129, 133, 135, 139, 209-210, 225 carbon, 2, 128, 130, 132, 138, 144Population, 32-33, 37, 39, 143, 184, 186Porritt, Jonathan, 31Power Hungry, 195Prescott, John, 35President's Climate Commitment, 12Princeton University, 64, 74, 132Propaganda, climate, 12Proposition 23, 128Public Broadcasting Station (PBS), 106Public Service Company in Colorado, 199Pugh, Lewis Gordon, 111Purdue University, 174QQ-Cells, 176Quarmby, David, 122

Queen Mary and Westfield College, 134RRadiation, 50, 72, 84, 91-96 infrared, 50, 74, 86Rahmsdorf, Steven, 120Rainforest Action Network, 40Ramesh, Jairam, 156Rand Corporation, 230Rapley, Chris, 32Reiter, Paul, 136Renewable energy, 1, 3-4, 12-13, 19-21, 28, 40, 110, 170-171, 176, 178, 182, 184-186, 188, 190, 192, 194, 196, 199-201, 210, 214-220, 224, 226, 228, 234, 238, 243-244, 246Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), 204Renewables Obligation (RO), 219Reserves of oil and gas, 222-223Revelle, Roger, 49Revkin, Andy, 33, 103Richey, Julie, 60-61Roberts, Carter, 138Roberts, David, 177Roberts, Mark, 42Robinson, Arthur, 142Rockefeller Foundation, 175Rodriguez, Jose Luis, 215Roesler, Philip, 218Roman Climate Optimum, 63Romm, Joseph, 117Royal Automobile Club Foundation, 122Royal Meteorological Society (RMetS), 15Royal Society, 15, 180, 240Russell Inquiry, 165-166Russell, Muir, 165-166Russia, 29, 32, 122, 152-153, 158, 169, 224, 243RWE Corporation, 42-43, 183RWI Institute, 218SSagan, Carl, 110Salinger, Jim, 152Santer, Ben, 162Sawyer, Diane, 113Schatten, Kenneth, 91-92, 95Schneider, Stephen, 154

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Scripps Inst. of Oceanography, 121, 140Sea-level rise, 7, 16, 101-102, 104, 108-112, 186, 240, 246Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, 42Schelling, Thomas, 125Schlesinger, James, 221Schmidt, Gavin, 84, 121, 123, 162Schumer, Charles, 187Scientific-government complex, 172Seitz, Fredrick, 155Sensitivity, climate, 87Shapps, Grant, 24-25Sharp Solar Corporation, 176Shearman, David, 34Sherwood, Steven, 91Shell Corporation, 14, 176Siegel, Kassie, 137Siemens Corporation, 14, 176Sierra Club, 21, 83, 179, 222Sinclair, Upton, 182Singer, S. Fred, 53, 62, 67Singh, Mahoman, 11Sissons, Peter, 168SKY experiment, 94-96Slingo, Julia, 174Slovakia, 43Smitheringale, Tom, 111Smith, Joseph, 34Snow, 16, 113, 115-116, 120-125Solar constant, 91Solar cycle, 91Solar energy, 19-21, 28, 39, 45, 110, 128, 171, 176, 183, 185-186, 188-198, 200, 202, 206, 214-218, 220, 226, 228, 233-235, 243, 245Solar Millennium Corporation, 218Solar Trust of America, 245Solar wind, 92-94, 96Solomon, Susan, 162Solon, 218Soon, Willie, 112South Africa, 36, 39, 58-59, 62, 166, 224, 242South America, 224South Korea, 32South Pole, 74Soviet Union (USSR), 136-137, 142, 147

Spain, 23, 134, 176, 187, 192-193, 195, 214- 215, 228, 244Spencer, Roy, 75, 85, 88, 105, 119-120, 158Stabenow, Debbie, 12Stanford University, 176Steiner, Achim, 37Stern, Nicholas, 8-10Stern Report, 101Steward, Leighton, 131Stewart, Ken, 151Stocker, Thomas, 167Stomata, leaf, 77-78, 82-83Storm, 52, 68, 113-114, 116, 120, 144 tropical, 7, 114, 116-118, 120, 133, 147Storms of My Grandchildren, 72Stott, Peter, 121-122, 162Stott, Philip, 168Stringer, Graham, 165Strong, Maurice, 36Subsidy, 20, 24, 45, 171, 176, 183, 201, 203- 204, 208-211, 214-215, 217-220, 224, 225, 235, 244Sulfur oxide (SOx), 94-95, 129, 209-210Sumitomo Bank, 14Sun, 55, 91-99, 126, 190-191, 194, 238Sunspot, 91-94, 96-97, 240Supercomputer, 52-53, 174, 182Sustainable development, 1, 13, 34, 38, 40, 44, 142, 171, 176, 195, 206, 208, 210, 217, 233, 234, 238, 243, 245-246Suzuki, David, 177Svensmark, Henrik, 94-96, 98Sweden, 38, 58-59, 62, 123, 134, 216, 232Switzerland, 167TTapster, Dan, 167Tata Steel Corporation, 44Taylor, Mitch, 137Taylor, Richard, 107-108Temperature, global, 10, 14, 16, 47-48, 51, 53, 55-56, 58-69, 79-80, 86-87, 89-92, 94, 97- 99, 101, 105-108, 110, 120, 133, 135-136, 140, 147, 159-160, 162, 169, 180, 182, 239- 240, 242, 246 proxy, 58, 60, 64, 66, 69, 76, 159-160

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record (data), 145, 147-153, 160-161, 169 sea surface (SST), 58-62, 68-69, 116-118, 139, 238, 240Texas A & M University, 167Texas Tech University, 116The Book of Icelanders, 56The Chilling Stars, 96The Climate Crisis, 120The Foundation Center, 175The Guardian, 124The New York Times, 103, 105The Population Bomb, 32The Weather Makers, 10TNO Management Consultants, 22Tornado, 114-116, 119-120, 125, 240Trenberth, Kevin, 67, 119, 162-163, 170, 238Trent University, 156Troposphere, 89-91, 96, 105Tunesia, 157Turner, Jonathan, 28Turner, Ted, 33Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, 35, 167-168, 225UUdall, Tom, 114Uggerhoj, Ulrik, 96Union of Concerned Scientists, 190United Kingdom, 9, 11, 16, 23-24, 28, 35, 39, 43-44, 57, 107, 121-122, 124-125, 129, 134-136, 144, 152, 156, 158-159, 163, 169, 174, 177, 185, 187-188, 191, 193-195, 197, 202-204, 213-214, 216, 219-220, 222, 224-225, 235, 244UK Dept. of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), 219-220, 232UK Government Office of Science, 125UK Meteorological Office, 48, 53, 89, 111, 121- 122, 159, 165, 174UK National Grid, 197-198UK National Health Service, 30UK Parliament, 28, 121, 163, 165, 198, 218UK Sustainable Development Commission, 31United Nations, 6, 15-16, 18, 21, 30-32, 34-38, 42, 109, 124, 141, 146, 153-154, 158, 166, 169, 186, 206, 241, 245

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 34, 36-37, 157UN Foundation, 35United States, 7, 11-14, 18-19, 22, 24, 28-29, 32, 35, 37, 39, 78, 94, 106-108, 110, 114-116, 118-121, 123, 129-130, 133-135, 137, 142, 147-151, 153, 158-159, 168-169, 173, 175- 177, 181, 186-188, 190-191, 193, 196, 198, 201, 203-205, 207-211, 214, 216, 224- 226, 229-230, 234, 241-244US Census Bureau, 19, 130US Center for Biological Diversity, 137US Center for Disease Control, 134US Central Intelligence Agency, 221US Coast Guard, 107US Congress, 14, 28, 64, 66, 132, 136, 146, 174, 178, 180, 210, 241-242US Department of Agriculture (USDA), 173-174, 205, 207, 230US Department of Commerce, 150, 173US Department of Defense, 229-230US Department of Education, 142-143US Department of Energy, 173-174, 176, 188, 200-202, 207, 221, 223-224, 230, 245US Department of Transportation, 23, 211US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 4, 22, 25, 85, 128-130, 146, 169, 174, 210-211US Fish and Wildlife Service, 232US Geological Survey, 137US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), 133, 135-136US Office of Management and Budget, 173US State Department, 103University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) 105, 162, 165, 172University of Aarhus, 33University of Alabama, 85University of Alaska, 69University of Arizona, 162University of Bern, 167University of California, 80, 141, 176, 181University of Chicago, 30, 141University of Colorado, 148University of East Anglia, 48, 120, 147, 152-153, 158-159, 163-169

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University of Florida, 181University of Guelph, 66, 166University of Idaho, 173University of Illinois, 103-104University of Kassel, 167University of Massachusetts, 64University of Oxford, 123, 162, 226University of Rey Juan Carlos, 214University of Rochester, 89University of South Florida, 60University of Stockholm, 58University of Tennessee, 212University of Twente, 208University of Utrecht, 78University of Virginia, 53, 159, 162University of Wales, 120University of Washington, 68Unstoppable Global Warming, 62Urban Heat Island, 148Vvan Hoof, Thomas, 78van Huis, Arnold, 31Vehicle, 18, 21-24, 38, 187, 203-206, 216, 230, 243 electric, 1, 24, 35, 39, 128, 183, 210-213 mileage, 22, 205, 208, 210Venezuela, 34Vermont, 9Vestas, 21, 176Vietnam, 102Viner, David, 120Vogtle plant, 192-195Volcano, 74, 81, 83Vostok ice station, 79-80WWadhams, Peter, 102Wageningen University, 31Wales, 44Water usage, 206, 208, 210Water vapor, 50, 55, 77, 83-89, 94-95, 129, 131, 240Watson, Paul, 42Watson, Robert, 146, 241Watts, Anthony, 112, 148, 153, 179Weather, 84-87, 89, 112-126, 135, 197

Weaver, Sigourney, 138West County plant, 192-195Western Electric Council, 198Wigley, Thomas, 162, 165Wind energy, 2, 19-21, 28, 39, 41, 44-45, 110, 128, 171, 176, 183, 185, 187-191, 193-202, 206, 214-218, 220, 226, 232, 234, 243-245Wirth, Tim, 14, 35, 178Wojick, David, 83Wolfe, Joshua, 121, 123Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 58World Bank, 37, 39, 208World Environmental Organization, 37World Health Organization, 31, 39, 134World in Transition, 216World Wildlife Fund (WWF), 128, 138, 157, 179, 192, 231, 235Wrigley, Tim, 162XXiaogushan Dam, 42ZZero-carbon home, 24Zero-Carbon Hub, 25Zillman, John, 154Zimmerman, Maggie, 141Zwick, Steve, 181