Climate engineering and the risk of rapid climate change

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Ross, Andrew ^a   Damon Matthews, H ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate engineering; Dangerous anthropogenic interference; Geoengineering; Rapid climate change

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; HIGH TEMPERATURE ENGINEERING;

ANTHROPOGENIC INTERFERENCE; CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; GEOENGINEERING; GLOBAL TEMPERATURES; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; RAPID CLIMATE CHANGE; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 70749150751     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/4/4/045103     Document Type: Article

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