The climate protection strategy revisited

Ambio

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 498-505

  Bach, Wilfrid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

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CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; POLICY STRATEGY;

EID: 0031743031     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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58. I am grateful to my former research associate Dr. A.T. Jain for carrying out the model calculations. Dr. Jam is now with the Dept. of Atmos Sciences, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA. Special thanks so to Dr. Phil Jones, Univ of East Anglia, UK, for promptly supplying the observed global mean temperature anomalies.
59. First submitted 16 February 1997. Accepted for publication after revision 17 April 1998.