2006, http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/environment/2005_warmest.

html.

8. IPCC, “Summary for Policymakers,” 4, 5.

9. Ibid., 6, 8.

10. Ibid., 9, 12.

11. Sousounis and Bisanz, Preparing for a Changing Climate, 2, 30.

12. Ibid., 55–62.

13. Ibid., 3 (quote), 65.

14. Ibid., 4.

15. Ibid., 31.

16. Ibid., 30.

17. Ibid., 33.

18. Ibid., 17.

19. International Joint Commission (IJC), Protection of the Waters of

the Great Lakes, Final Report to the Governments of Canada and the

United States (February 22, 2000), 24.

20. Sousounis and Bisanz, Preparing for a Changing Climate, 2, 3, 4,

24.

21. The UCS report’s executive summary was updated in late 2005

and can be found at Union of Concerned Scientists, http://www.

ucsusa.org/assets/documents/global_warming/GL-Exec-Summary-

Update-05-doc.pdf.

22. Kling et al., Confronting Climate Change in the Great Lakes Re-

gion, 1.

23. Ibid., 24.

24. Ibid., 2, 4.

25. Ibid., 18.

26. Ibid., 18.

27. Ibid., 19.

28. More information on a prior example of abrupt climate change

can be found by conducting an Internet search for the “Younger Dryas

period.”

29. This Frank Quinn is not the same person as the Canadian Frank

Quinn, formerly of Environment Canada, in chapter 6.

30. Kling et al., Confronting Climate Change in the Great Lakes Re-

gion, 14.

31. Ibid., 23.

32. Ibid., 34.

33. IJC, Protection of the Waters of the Great Lakes, 25, 22.

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