Reconstructing climatic and environmental changes of the past 1000 years: A reappraisal

Energy and Environment

Volumn 14, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 233-296

  Soon, Willie ^a,b   Baliunas, Sallie ^a,b   Idso, Craig ^c   Idso, Sherwood ^c   Legates, David R ^d  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b Mount Wilson Observatory   (United States)

^c Ctr Study Carbon Dioxide/Global Cha   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Environmental change; Little Ice Age; Medieval Warm Period; Paleoclimate proxies

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; THERMAL EFFECTS;

HEMISPHERICAL ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE VARIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY; LITTLE ICE AGE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD;

LAMB;

EID: 0345768751     PISSN: 0958305X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/095830503765184619     Document Type: Article

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