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Undated Material

• "Global warming controversy" in the Wikipedia.
• Power Outages 2003 and 2004, Steve Quayle.com.

2002

• Regis Neurohr, "Blame the the drought for lower levels in Missouri River," Omaha River Front, August 1, 2002.

2003

• "Mississippi River nears historic low" and series of related articles, usgs.gov, January 2003.
• Sid Perkins, "Spring Forward. Warmer climates accelerate life cycles of plants, animals", Science News Online, March 8, 2003.
• "Methane and climate change. Swamp thing or monster of the deep?", The Economist, April 17, 2003.
• Jeff Nesmith, "Resigning Whitman denies strife with Bush," Atlanta Journal-Constitution, May 22, 2003.
• Jeff Barnard, "Climate Change Scenarios Alter Forecasts", Associated Press, June 9, 2003.
• Katherine Redding and Kathleen M. Wong, California Academy of Sciences, ""Human land use has a big effect on global warming and other stories" adapted by Environmental News Network, June 12, 2003.
• John A. Frantz, "Runaway global warming from oceans' methane is real threat", The Capital Times, June 12, 2003.
• Bonn Climate Conference Ends on Upbeat Note", DW-World, June 14, 2003.
• "Researchers start using global climate simulator", Japan Times Online, June 17, 2003.
• H. Josef Hebert, "EPA: White House Urged Changes to Report", Associated Press, June 19, 2003.
• Andrew C. Revkin with Katharine Q. Seelye, "Report by the E.P.A. Leaves Out Data on Climate Change", The New York Times, June 19, 2003.
• H. Josef Hebert, "White House Searching for New EPA Chief, Associated Press, June 19, 2003.
• "Global warming 'threatens Earth with mass extinction'", Sydney Morning Herald, June 20, 2003.
• Terry L. Root, Jeff T. Price, Kimberly R. Hall, Stephen H. Schneider, Cynthia Rosenzweig & J. Alan Pounds, "Fingerprints of global warming on wild animals and plants", Nature (Volume 421), January 2, 2003 [pages 57-60 (abstract)].
• Camille Parmesan And Gary Yohe, "A globally coherent fingerprint of climate change impacts across natural systems", Nature (Volume 421, January 2, 2003 [pages 37-42 (abstract)].
• Peter Schwartz and Doug Randall, "An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and Its Implications for United States National Security" (Executive Summary of Pentagon Report on Global Warming), October 1, 2003. PDF file of report.
• Thomas R. Karl and Kevin E. Trenberth, "Modern Global Climate Change", Science (Volume 302, Issue 5651), December 5, 2003 [pages 1719-1723].

2004

• Chris D. Thomas, Alison Cameron, et al., "Extinction Risk from Climate Change", Nature (Volume 427), January 2004 [pages 145:148 (abstract)].
• Rachel Carbonell, "Wild storms may be result of global warming: experts", Australian Broadcasting Corporation (Australia), January 30, 2004.
• John von Radowitz, "Earth Saves Itself from Global Warming - over 150,000 Years", PA News, February 1, 2004.
• Geoffrey Lean, ""Global Warming Will Plunge Britain Into Ice Age, Independent/UK, 2 February 2004.
• "Breakthrough Purports Answer to Global Warming," solaraccess.com (Auckland, New Zealand), February 2, 2004.
• Patrick Doherty and Andrew Marshall, ""Global Warming - It's the Emissions, Stupid", Tom Paine, February 3, 2004.
• Ancient global warming may be from methane," UPI, February 3, 2004.
• David Stipp, "The Pentagon's Weather Nightmare: The climate could change radically, and fast. That would be the mother of all national security issues", Fortune, February 9, 2004.
• Mark Townsend and Paul Harris, "Now the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us", Guardian (UK), February 22, 2004.
• James Hansen, "Defusing the Global Warming Time Bomb", Scientific American, March 2004.
• "The truth about global warming - it's the Sun that's to blame", Telegraph (UK), July 18, 2004.
• Jutta Kill and Chris Lang, "Emission trade instead of climate protection: Why planting trees does not compensate for flying", Verträglich Reisen, November 2004.

2005

• David Adam, "Oil firms fund climate change denial", Guardian (UK), January 2005.
• "High winds cut power supplies," icScotland, January 12, 2005.
• Tom Engelhardt, "Mired in Denial, Lost in the Present", Znet, February 8, 2005.
• "Heatwave puts power supplies under threat," The New Zealand Herald, February 11, 2005.
• Chris Mooney, "Some Like It Hot," Mother Jones, May/June 2005: "Forty public policy groups have this in common: They seek to undermine the scientific consensus that humans are causing the earth to overheat. And they all get money from ExxonMobil.
• Andrew C. Revkin, "Bush Aide Softened Greenhouse Gas Links to Global Warming", New York Times, June 8, 2005.
• Andrew C. Revkin, "White House Calls Editing Climate Files Part of Usual Review", New York Times, June 9, 2005.
• "A (White) House Party for Lobbyists", Editorial, New York Times, June 9, 2005.
• Juliet Eilperin, "U.S. Pressure Weakens G-8 Climate Plan: Global-Warming Science Assailed", Washington Post, June 17, 2005.
• Juliet Eilperin, "GOP Chairmen Face Off on Global Warming: Public Tiff Over Probe of Study Highlights Divide on Issue", Washington Post, July 18, 2005.
• Sam Hananel, "Blunt wants more water from Missouri River released to help with drought," Associated Press (Myrtle Beach Online), August 12, 2005.
• Alexei Barrionuevo, "Midwest's summerlong drought strands barges in shrinking rivers," New York Times (SF Gate), August 15, 2005.
• "Norway Power Outage. 30,000 lightning strikes," Weather Online, August 17, 2005.
• Ross Gelbspan, "Katrina's Real Name," Boston Globe, August 30, 2005.
• Paul Brown, "Republicans Accused of Witch-Hunt against Climate Change Scientists," Guardian (UK) (Truthout), August 30, 2005.

2006

• Anne Underwood, "And For the Rest of the Century’s Weather…. A new study predicts some wet and wild climate changes in the decades ahead," Newsweek (MSNBC), November 27, 2006.
• "Climate Change vs Mother Nature: Scientists reveal that bears have stopped hibernating," The Independent (UK), December 21, 2006.
• "Warmer winters change Washington foliage," Associated Press (Seattle Post-Intelligencer), December 26, 2006.

2007

• David Adam, "Surge in carbon levels raises fears of runaway warming. Figures show higher than expected rise in CO2. Scientists warn earth may be absorbing less gas," The Guardian (UK), January 19, 2007.
• "Investigation Reveals Widespread Suppression of Federal Climate Research," Union of Concerned Scientists, January 30, 2007.
• H. Josef Hebert, "Waxman seeks climate inquiry evidence," Associated Press (The Mercury News), January 30, 2007.
• Timothy Gardner, "Southwest headed for Dust Bowl dryness: study," Reuters, April 5, 2007.
• Randolph E. Schmid, "Climate Change Threatens a New Dust Bowl," Associated Press (ABC News), April 5, 2007.
• Don Fitz, "What’s Possible in the Military Sector? Greater than 100% Reduction in Greenhouse Gases", Znet, April 30, 2007.
• David F. Noble, "The Corporate Climate Coup", Znet, May 8, 2007.