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Greenland, ice melt, 112–113, 179
Guatemala, 226
Gulf of Mexico, oil pollution risk, 104–106, 108
Gulf Stream, 116, 165
Gulf War in 1990, 45
Haber-Bosch process, 161
Hansen, James E., 22, 80
Harding, Warren G., 77
Hayward, Tony, 105
health, global warming impact, 179–183
Health Effects Institute, 176
heat dispersal by oceans, 115
heat waves, 164, 180
helium, 28
Herodotus, 32
Hetch Hetchy Valley, 59
Higgins, Patillo, 42
highway systems, congestion, 146
Hill, Jason, 169
Honda Motor Co., 147
Hoover, Herbert, 255
Hopi Indians, 33
horseless carriage, 40
hospitals, energy requirements, 184–185
Hubbert, Marion King, 12
Hubbert’s peak, 12–18
human population
early history, 32
growth of, 117–119
Humble Oil Company, 42
hurricanes, 116, 165
Katrina, 108, 130, 180
Rita, 108
hybrid vehicles, 155, 205
hydrocarbons
creation, 30
role in U.S. military strength, 233
hydrogen, 27, 70, 71–73
hydrogen-powered fuel cells, for cars, 150
hydropower, 58–62
Hyundai Motor, 72
Iceland, 222
Immelt, Jeffrey, 137
immigrants in U.S., 217–218
India, 17, 219–220
demand for energy, 45
population growth, 24
Indonesia, 44
Industrial Revolution, and wind power, 55
industrialization, 17
industry in U.S., energy consumption, 128
influenza, 179
information technology, in electric network, 135
innovation, 48, 241–242
Innovations in Civic Participation group, 195
insects, climate change and, 166
intermodal freight delivery, 155–156
International Atomic Energy Agency,
69, 123
international economic system, 139–140
International Energy Agency (IEA), 99
International Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC), 182
international political tension, actions to
minimize, 233–234
Interstate Highway System, 43–44, 144, 253
investment capital, for green innovations, 137
Iran, 44, 90–91
Revolution of 1979, 45
trade relations with China, 99
Iraq, 44, 90
Israel, clean-energy infrastructure, 221
Italy, 70–71
Japan, 220
earthquake and tsunami, 5
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster,
5, 122
Jefferson, Thomas, 1
Jenkins, David, 249
jet fuel, 98
job creation, 138–139, 235
job security, 236
Johnson, Lyndon, 253
Johnson, Stephen, 85
Johnstown Flood of 1889, 59
Joint Forces Quarterly, 97
Joliet, Louis, 33
Judicial Watch, 78
Kennedy, John F., 232, 253
Kenya, 229
kerogen, 16
kerosene, 35, 40
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, 68
Kings River Conservation District, 215
Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, 137
krill, 114
Kuwait, 44
Kyoto Protocol, 79
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