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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