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Index climate change denial, 14–15, 37–40,
42–43, 171
activism, 169–170, 172 Chevron, 35, 39
Amazon rain forest, 85–86, 119 ExxonMobil, 39
and extinctions, 118–119 George C. Marshall Institute,
carbon capture, 84–86 39–40
oxygen production, 84–85 Global Climate Coalition, 39
wildfires of 2019, 83–86 Heartland Institute, 39
amphibians, 116–117, 128 partisan divide, 41
animal agriculture, 159–161 climate crisis, 12, 18, 21, 28, 72, 108,
animal migrations, 126–127, 129 139, 160, 167, 171, 174
arable land loss, 74, 146–147 Climategate, 32, 42
Aral Sea, 71–74 climate migrants, 132, 143, 151
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge climate refugees, 108, 132–133,
(ANWR), 118–119, 165, 171 136, 138, 140–142, 148
Arrhenius, Svante, 29 estimates, 136–137, 141, 142
atolls, 7, 88–90 from the Northern Triangle,
Audubon Society, 129 142–144, 150
Australian bushfires of 2019–2020, internal displacement, 108,
11, 79, 80–81, 117 131–134, 136–137, 147, 150
and extinction, 11, 83, 117 climate strikes, 170
carbon emissions from, 82–83 climate vs. weather, 16–17
Australian snowstorms, 44–45 coral bleaching, 121–122
Corporate Average Fuel Economy
Ban Ki-Moon, 130 standards of 1975, 157
beach loss, 10–11, 63 COVID-19, 153, 155
Biden, Joe, 173
biofuels, 162–165 Darwin, Charles, 90
Bramble Cay melomys, 110–111, 114 deforestation, 28, 71–72, 84–86, 114,
Browne, Gaston, 57 118, 146, 167
Brown, Jerry, 65 desalination, 75, 78
Buffalo, New York, 133 desertification, 71, 74, 133, 146, 149
Bush, George H. W., 35, 148 Dhaka, Bangladesh, 130–131
Bush, George W., 147–148 dinosaurs, 20, 113
drought emergencies, 64–65
cap-and-trade programs, 171 Dust Bowl, 72–73, 168
Cape Town, South Africa, 75–77
carbon capture, 28, 83, 122, 167–168 El Niños, 54, 103–104
Amazon rain forest, 84 energy-efficient appliances, 159–160
sustainable agriculture, 167 Environmental Protection Agency
tree planting, 167 (EPA), 34, 66, 76, 89, 156, 159
carbon footprint, 154–155, 160, 164, erosion, 7, 11, 50, 90, 125, 135, 168
168–169 eucalyptus trees, 79, 82
carbon taxes, 35 extinction, 11, 20, 23, 80, 83,
Chennai, India, 77–78 111–114, 116–119, 128

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