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Janet Larsen "Following a string of high heat days and meteorologists’ warnings that this summer could be another scorcher, European public health officials and politicians are revisiting the devastating heat wave of 2003. The severely hot weather that withered crops, dried up rivers, and fueled fires that summer took a massive human toll. The full magnitude of this quiet catastrophe still remains largely an untold story, as data revealing the continent-wide scale have only slowly become available in the years since," states an EPI report by [[Janet Larsen]]. "All in all, more than 52,000 Europeans died from heat in the summer of 2003, making the heat wave one of the deadliest climate-related disasters in Western history.... To read the rest of this article and to view a supporting dataset" <ref>Janet Larsen, please visit Earth Policy Institute at "[http://www.earth-policy.org/Updates/2006/Update56.htmSETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT: More than 52,000 Europeans Died from Heat in Summer 2003]," Earth Policy Institute, July 28, 2006.</ref>
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"With the record for 2007 now complete, it is clear that temperatures around the world are continuing their upward climb. The global average in 2007 was 14.73 degrees Celsius (58.5 degrees Fahrenheit) -- the second warmest year on record, only 0.03 degrees Celsius behind the 2005 maximum," according to an EPI report by [[Frances C. Moore]]. "January 2007 was the hottest January ever measured, a full 0.23 degrees Celsius warmer than the previous record. August was also a record for that month and September was the second warmest September recorded." <ref>Frances C. Moore, "[http://www.earth-policy.org/Indicators/Temp/2008.htm 2007 SECOND WARMEST YEAR ON RECORD: Northern Hemisphere Temperature Highest Ever]," Earth Policy Institute, January 10, 2008.</ref>
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==PeoplePersonnel==Accessed November 2007From EPI's website: <ref>[http://www.earth-policy.org/About/index.htm About], Earth Policy Institute, accessed November 28, 2007.</ref>
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