Army Corps Beach Erosion Control
Project, 53
New Jersey beaches and, 53
Arthur, Chester A., 51
Asia, 79–92
brown cloud in, 85–89
India, 79–85
Asian brown cloud, 85–90, 179
aerosols as part of, 85, 88
causes of, 86
components of, 87
deaths as result of, 87
dust movements and, 89–90
meteorological effects of, 88
oceanic effects of, 88
research material for, 179
size of, 85
and sunlight, effect on, 88
UNEP and, 87
“The Asian Brown Cloud: Climate and
Environmental Impacts,” 87
“The Asian Dust Events of April 1998,” 90
Asperigillus(fungus), 90
Atalopedes campestris(sachem skipper but-
terfly), 145–146
climate changes, effect on, 145–146
in Pacific Northwest, 145–146
Australia, 129–134, 140
climate-enhanced storms in, 132
coral “bleaching” in, 129–134
Great Barrier Reef in, 130–134
Australia Institute of Marine Sciences. See
AIMS
auto rickshaws, 80
in India, 80
Baalu, T.R., 92
on India pollution, 92
Barbuda, 70–75
coastal management, prospects of, 75
Codrington, Christopher, and, 71
coral reefs in, 73
flora in, 73
geographic location of, 70
geological history of, 70–71
main industries in, 73
population of, 71
sand mining, effects of, 72
species redistribution in, 73
tourism development in, 74–75
Barnes, Sherry, 173
Baxter, Chuck, 113–114, 117–118, 125
Gilman, Sarah, and, 113
Sagarin, Rafe, and, 113
on serpulorbusovergrowth, 113–114
on tidepool studies, 117
beach replenishment, 47–48, 54
in The Corps and the Shore
(Dixon/Pilkey), 48
in New Jersey, 47–48, 54
The Beaches Are Moving(Kaufman/Pilkey),
56, 178
Beijing Energy Efficiency Center, 21
Bennett, Dery, 47, 54–55
on beach replenishment, 54–55
Berlusconi, Silvio, 37
Bhatia, S.P. Singh, 80
“big gates” project (Venice, Italy), 35–37
criticism of, 36
New Venice Consortium and, 35–36
support for, 37
Blair, Tony, 5
on carbon emissions (UK), 5
Bloomfield, Janine, 42
Bodman, Noreen, 48
on beach replenishment, 48
Braasch, Gary, 173
Bradley, Ed, 75
Bras, Rafael, 35
Brown, Hartley, 146
on glacier shrinkage, 146
Browne, John, 30
Buliruarua, Leigh-Anne, 137
Bulletin of the American Meteorological
Society, 144
Bush, George H.W., 7
Bush, George W., 7–8
on global warming, 7
on Kyoto Protocol, 7–8
CalCOFI (California Cooperative Oceanic
and Fisheries Investigations),
119–120, 122
data collection of, 119
on ocean temperatures, 120
California coastline, 111–125
California Current and, 119–122
ecological zones in, 111–112
Monterey Bay, 114–118
San Francisco Bay, 123–125186 Index