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"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." <ref>Janet Larsen, "[http://www.earth-policy.org/Updates/2006/Update56.htm SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT: More than 52,000 Europeans Died from Heat in Summer 2003]," Earth Policy Institute, July 28, 2006.</ref>

Lester R. Brown "On February 20, 2007, Australia announced it would phase out the sale of inefficient incandescent light bulbs by 2010, replacing them with highly efficient compact fluorescent bulbs that use one fourth as much electricity. If the rest of the world joins Australia in this simple step to sharply cut carbon emissions, the worldwide drop in electricity use would permit the closing of more than 270 coal-fired (500 megawatt) power plants. For the United States, this bulb switch would facilitate shutting down 80 coal-fired plants," states an EPI report by Lester R.Brown.<ref>Lester R.. To read the rest of this article and to view a supporting datasetBrown, please visit Earth Policy Institute at "[http://www.earth-policy.org/Updates/2007/Update66.htmBAN THE BULB: Worldwide Shift from Incandescents to Compact Fluorescents Could Close 270 Coal-Fired Power Plants]," Earth Policy Institute, May 9, 2007.</ref>