Environmental Profile Series, a publication of the Caribbean Conservation Association and the
Island Resources Foundation, September 1991; Antigua, Barbuda, Redonda: A Historical
Sketchby D. V. Nicholson, Museum of Antigua and Barbuda, and material provided by
Antigua’s Environmental Awareness Group and Meteorological Office. Also useful were the
executive summary of the “Small Island Countries Dialogue on Water and Climate” presented
at the World Water Forum, Kyoto, Japan, March 3–16, 2003, and the Environmental News
Service article “Vulnerable Caribbean Nations Prepare for Global Warming,” June 4, 2001.
The author would especially like to thank Ambassador Lionel Hurst, Carole McCauley of
the Environmental Awareness Group, and Tony Johnson of the Siboney Beach Resort for
their assistance in providing key contacts on the islands.
CHAPTERFIVE
Jim Motavalli journeyed to India in 1999 to accept E/The Environmental Magazine’s “Global
Media Award” for population reporting from the Population Institute. The trip included vis-
its to New Dehli, Agra, Bombay, and many of the other cities under the Asian cloud.
The BBC, Wall Street Journal, the Indian magazine The Week, CNN, and The Guardian
have all done excellent work on the Asian cloud. The Journal’s story “Soot Storm: A Dirty
Discovery over Indian Ocean Sets Off a Fight” by John J. Fialka (May 6, 2003, p. A1) discusses
the political ramifications of Professor Veerabhadran Ramanathan’s work.
The report “The Asian Brown Cloud: Climate and Other Environmental Impacts,” pre-
pared by the Center for Clouds, Chemistry and Climate at the University of California, San
Diego, is available from the United Nations Environmental Programme at
http://www.rrcap.unep.org, or by calling 662-516-2124.
Columbia University’s Center for International Earth Science Information Network
(CIESIN) hosted the “Photo-Oxidants, Fine Particles, and Haze across the Arctic and North
Atlantic: Transport Observation and Models” conference. Workshop presentations may be
accessed at http://www.ciesin.org/pph/agenda.html.
A huge resource for material on Asian haze and smoke is http://www.vadscorner.
com/haze.html (though not all the links work!). One that does, at http://www.vadscorner.
com/mask.html, illustrates the proper way to strap on a respirator. The collaborative report
on the Asian dust events of 1998 is online at http://capita.wustl.edu/Asia-FarEast.
John Hayes’s moving account “Life under the Asian Brown Cloud” is posted at http://
http://www.guardian.co.uk/globalwarming/story/0,7369,781095,00.html.
Also well worth reading is the detailed reporting on the human face of climate change by
the India Resource Center (formerly CorpWatch India), available on the website http://
http://www.indiaresource.org. The interested reader may access a report from the Climate Justice
Summit at http://www.corpwatchindia.org/issues/PID.jsp?articleid=3043.
PHOTOESSAY
The photographs presented here are part ofWorld View of Global Warming, Gary Braasch’s
documentation of the effects and the science. He interviewed each of the scientists repre-
sented in his photo section. More photographs and annotated references may be found at the
project website, http://www.worldviewofglobalwarming.org.
There are more than 3,000 individual studies of ongoing effects of global warming on
earth systems and the biosphere; 2,500 were reviewed by the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC), whose report, “Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation, and
Vulnerability,” is at http://www.ipcc.ch.
Other important reviews of scientific research with copious references are “Climate
Extremes: Observations, Modeling, and Impacts,” by David Easterling, et al, inScience289,
September 22, 2000; “A globally coherent fingerprint of climate change impacts across natural
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