Engineering: Advanced technology paths to global climate stability: Energy for a greenhouse planet

Science

Volumn 298, Issue 5595, 2002, Pages 981-987

  Hoffert, Martin I ^a   Caldeira, Ken ^a   Benford, Gregory ^a   Criswell, David R ^a   Green, Christopher ^a   Herzog, Howard ^a   Jain, Atul K ^a   Kheshgi, Haroon S ^a   Lackner, Klaus S ^a   Lewis, John S ^a   Lightfoot, H Douglas ^a   Manheimer, Wallace ^a   Mankins, John C ^a   Mauel, Michael E ^a   Perkins, L John ^a   Schlesinger, Michael E ^a   Volk, Tyler ^a   Wigley, Tom M L ^a  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CARBON DIOXIDE; FISSION REACTIONS; FOSSIL FUELS; FREE ENERGY; PLANETS; SOLAR ENERGY; WIND POWER;

CLIMATE STABILIZATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; FOSSIL FUEL; HYDROGEN;

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; STABILIZATION; SUSTAINABILITY;

CARBON DIOXIDE MEASUREMENT; CLIMATE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CONDUCTOR; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENERGY; ENERGY RESOURCE; GLOBAL CHANGE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MOLECULAR STABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 18644385222     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1072357     Document Type: Review

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