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[406] Climate Change, World Wildlife Fund web site: http://www.worldwildlife.org/climate/

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[414] Discover Dialogue: Meteorologist William Gray, September 9, 2005.

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[418] Peace Man, Economist.com, 12 October, 2007.

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[440] Increase In Atmospheric Moisture Tied To Human Activities, Science Daily, September 19, 2007.

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[445] Ibid.

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[450] Cool It, Bjørn Lomborg, 2007, Knopf, p. 6.

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[452] Natural Resources Key to Alaska Town's Future, Melissa Block. All Things Considered, September 11, 2007.

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[454] Endemic malaria: an 'indoor' disease in northern Europe, Lena Huldén, Larry Huldén, and Kari Heliövaara, Malaria Journal, 2005; 4: 19.

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[457] Ibid.

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[467] Peru's retreating glaciers stir water-supply worries, Leslie Josephs, The Associated Press, February 12, 2007.

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[472] Ill winds, the Economist, July 29, 2004.

[473] Getting wind farms off the ground, the Economist, June 7, 2007.

[474] Ill winds, the Economist, July 29, 2004.

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[488] Coal mine deaths spike upward, Thomas Frank, USA Today, January 1, 2007.

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[514] Cool It, Bjørn Lomborg, 2007, Knopf, p. 31.

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