From Earth Policy Institute

Lester R. Brown, Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2006).

Joseph Florence and Lila Buckley, “2005 Hottest Year on Record,” Eco-Economy Indicator, 28 March 2006.

Janet Larsen, “Record Heat Wave in Europe Takes 35,000 Lives,” Eco-Economy Update, 9 October 2003.

From Other Sources

David R. Easterling et al., “Climate Extremes: Observations, Modeling, and Impacts,” Science, vol. 289 (22 September 2000), pp. 2068-74.

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, “Topic: 2003 Heat Wave,” in Eurosurveillance, vol. 10, issues 7-9 (July-September 2005).

Goddard Institute for Space Studies, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Earth Sciences Directorate, "Global Temperature Anomalies in .01 C," www.giss.nasa.gov/data.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis; Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability; and Mitigation. Contributions of Working Group I, II, and III to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press). Text and summaries of each report available at www.ipcc.ch.

Jürg Luterbacher et al., “European Seasonal and Annual Temperature Variability, Trends, and Extremes Since 1500, Science, vol. 303 (5 March 2004), pp. 1499-1503.

Christoph Schär and Gerd Jendritzky, “Hot News from Summer 2003,” Nature, vol. 432 (2 December 2004), pp. 559-60.

Peter A. Stott, D.A. Stone, and M.R. Allen, “Human Contribution to the European Heatwave of 2003,” Nature, vol. 432 (2 December 2004), pp. 610-13.