Assessing dangerous climate change through an update of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) ''reasons for concern''

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 4133-4137

  Smith, Joel B ^a   Schneider, Stephen H ^b   Oppenheimer, Michael ^c   Yohe, Gary W ^d   Hare, William ^e   Mastrandrea, Michael D ^b   Patwardhan, Anand ^f   Burton, Ian ^g   Corfee Morlot, Jan ^h   Magadza, Chris H D ⁱ   Füssel, Hans Martin ^e   Pittock, A Barrie ^j   Rahman, Atiq ^k   Suarez, Avelino ^l   Van Ypersele, Jean Pascal ^m  

^a ABT ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^f INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^h OECD   (France)

ⁱ University Lake Kariba Research Station   (Zimbabwe)

^j CSIRO   (Australia)

^k Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies   (Bangladesh)

^l Cuba Environmental Agency   (Cuba)

^m UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

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Author keywords

Article 2; Climate change impacts; UNFCCC

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GREENHOUSE GAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION;

AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE; DANGEROUS BEHAVIOR; FORECASTING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; UNITED NATIONS;

EID: 63149120519     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0812355106     Document Type: Article

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