Table of Contents
Background, Concepts, Overview — Introduction — Human Impact on Climate: The Evolution of an Awareness — Politics and the Air Around Us: International Policy Action on Atmospheric Pollution by Trace Gases — Grappling for a Glimpse of the Future — Statistics of Climate Change: Implications for Scenario Development — Impact Assessment by Analogy: Comparing the Impacts of the Ogallala Aquifer Depletion and CO2-Induced Climate Change — Case Studies — Great Lakes Levels and Climate Change: Impacts, Responses, and Futures — The Rising Level of the Great Salt Lake: An Analogue of Societal Adjustment to Climate Change — Future Sea-Level Rise and Its Implications for Charleston, South Carolina — Institutional Response to Sea-Level Rise: The Case of Louisiana — Climate Variability and the Mississippi River Navigation System — Climate Variability and the Colorado River Compact: Implications for Responding to Climate Change — Climate Change and California: Past, Present, and Future Vulnerabilities — Analyzing the Risk of Drought: The Occoquan Experience — The Ogallala Aquifer and Carbon Dioxide: Are Policy Responses Applicable? — Public and Private Sector Responses to Florida Citrus Freezes — Forecasting by Analogy — Summary
