waterway infrastructure, upgrades of,
26, 28
wind power in, 31–32
Netherlands Water Partnership, 29
New Jersey beaches, 47–58
Army Corps Beach Erosion Control
Project and, 53
beach replenishment in, 47–48
CRAB and, 52
Long Beach Township, 50–53
as part of Gateway National Recreation
Area, 47
property values in, 49–50
public trust doctrines and, 50
rising sea levels, future projections for, 47
Sandy Hook, 47, 51, 57–58
shoreline access to, 50–53
New Jersey Department of Environmental
Protection, 51
New Venice Consortium, 35–36
“big gates” project and, 35–36
Cecconi, Giovanni, and, 35
environmentalists and, 36
New York City, Greater, 39–59
abnormal climate changes in, 40
flooding projections for, 41
health concerns in, 44–45
Jamaica Bay in, 43–44
land subsidence in, 42
New Jersey beaches, 47–58
population of, 40
public works infrastructure of, 40
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers report
on, 40
West Nile encephalitis in, 45–46
New York State Department of
Environmental Conservation, 44
New York Times,4, 20–21, 43
on global warming, 4
on greenhouse gas emissions, in China,
20
on Jamaica Bay (New York), 43
New York/New Jersey Baykeeper, 47
NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration), 128
Norse, Elliott, 143
North Carolina (U.S.), 55
effect of global warming in, 55
North Queensland Conservation Council,
130
NRC (National Research Council), 105
“cascade hypothesis,” 105
“regime shifts” and, 105
NRDC (Natural Resources Defense
Council), 20
oceans
Asian brown cloud, effects on, 88
Cesar, Herman, on, 84
El Niño and, 120
phytoplankton in, 120
temperature rise in, 84, 119
zooplankton in, 120
ocinebra(whelk snail), 114
Ott, Hermann, 27, 28
ozone levels, 45, 89
in California, 89
global warming, effect on, 45
Pacific Northwest, 141–155
Atalopedes campestrisin, 145–146
climate changes in, 146
development in, effects of, 149–150
floods, predictions for, 149–150
Glacier National Park (Montana), 142
global warming, economic effects of,
148–149, 154–155
population increases in, projections for,
147–148
salmon in, 143
snowpack decline in, 147
South Cascade Glacier in, 142
species redistribution in, 142
temperature, average rise in, 142
tourism in, importance of, 146
vegetation changes in, 144
“white gold” in, 146
Pacific Northwest Climate Impacts Group,
147
Palahad, Janita, 136
Parrish, David, 89
Patterson, Donna, 158–160, 165–168
on adelie penguins, 158–160
giant petrel studies of, 165–168
Pelto, Mauri, 142
permafrost, 97, 107
on Little Diomede Island, 97, 107
Peterson, David, 144
Pew Center on Global Climate Change, 148
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