The God Species_ How the Planet Can Survive the Age of Humans - Mark Lynas [150]
Chinese Academy for Environmental Planning
Climate Action Network
Climate Action Partnership
climate change: carbon offsetting/markets and; deniers; extinction and; boundary see climate change boundary; tipping points; methane and; agreements/negotiations; nitrates worsen; solar radiation management and; see also carbon dioxide emissions, China, individual agreement/negotiation name, nuclear power, population, renewables under individual event and area name
climate change boundary; 350: current evidence; 350: modeling evidence; 350: past evidence; toward a technofix?; technologies for new technologies for the future; politics of carbon; sea level rise; Arctic thaw and; destabilization of Atlantic Ocean circulation; models
Climate Fix, The (Pielke Jnr)
“Climategate”, 2009
Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia
Clinton, Bill
Club of Rome
coal power
Cochabamba, Bolivia
Collapse (Diamond)
Colorado River
Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas
Condit Dam
Congo Basin Forest Fund
Congress, US
Convention on Biological Diversity, Nagoya, 2010
Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution, 1979
COP15 of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
Copenhagen Accord
Copenhagen climate summit, 2009
coral reefs
Corporate Watch
Costa Rica
Costanza, Robert
Cretaceous Period
Crookes, William
Crutzen, Paul
Current Opinion in Plant Biology
Cyclone Nargis
Da Silva, Luiz Inácio Lula
Dai, Aiguo
Daly, Herman
Dampier, William
dams, removing unnecessary; hydroelectric; Chinese construction of; fishery collapse and; tidal barrages; block natural flow of water; threaten species; affects water temperature; water trapped behind loses most of its sediment load; current water use; where water is taken from
Danish Committee on Scientific Dishonesty
DDT
Dead Sea
dead zones
deep-sea floating turbines
deforestation
Delta smelt
“demographic transition”
Dhaka
Diamond, Jared
diesel engines
Dinorwig, Wales
DuPont
Earth: goldilocks state; self-regulating; “snowball”; ice-albedo feedback; see also carbon: cycle
“earthshine”
East Antarctic Ice Sheet
Economics of Ecosystems & Biodiversity, The (TEEB) report, 2010
Economist
Ecuador
Edwards Dam
Egypt
electric vehicles
Endangered Species Act, U.S.
Energy Information Administration, U.S.
“energy sprawl”
“enigmatic decline”
Enriching the Earth (Smil)
Environmental Protection Agency, U.S.
Eocene
ethanol
European Emissions Trading Scheme
European Union
evolution: intelligence/brain; as part of process of Earth’s self-regulation; of life; adaptation to a changed environment and
extinction: mass; animal
Eyjafjallajokull volcano eruption, 2010
farming see agriculture
Federal Endangered Species List, U.S.
Feely, Richard
fertilizer, agricultural
fire-ape, birth of
“Flask world”
“flood basalts”
Food Animal Initiative
food-fuel relationship
France: nuclear power in; wheat yields in; Copenhagen summit; emissions
freshwater boundary; fragmentation of rivers by man-made infrastructure; benefits of water engineering and control; ecological zones; dams and; removal of water from rivers for agriculture; hydroelectric dams; desalination; extinction rate of freshwater species; water temperature; storm surges; freshwater ecological restoration; increasing global trade in virtual water; privatization of; water wastage; putting a price on water
Friends of the Earth
Fuji-Hakone-Izu Park, Japan
Fukushima disaster, 2011
G8
Gaia theory
Galápagos Islands
Galiana, Isabel
Ganges River
“gap species”
GDP as measure of progress
“gender benders”
genetic engineering (GE)
geoengineering
Germany
“ghost habitats”
Gingrich, Newt
glaciers
Glen Canyon Dam
Glines Canyon Dam
Global Biodiversity Outlook
“global dimming”
Global Warming Policy Foundation
Global Wind Energy Council
glyphosate
gomphotheres
Gooding, Mike
Google; Foundation
Gore, Al
Gorham’s Cave, Gibraltar
Gothenburg Protocol, 1999
GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment)
Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
great apes, extinction of
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