Geo-engineering to confine climate change: Is it at all feasible?

Climatic Change

Volumn 77, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 229-234

  Bengtsson, Lennart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33748891035     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-006-9133-3     Document Type: Note

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