Refl ections on: Our planet and its life, origins, and futures

Science

Volumn 326, Issue 5960, 2009, Pages 1646-1655

  McCarthy, James J ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; FOSSIL FUEL;

DECISION MAKING; EARTH; ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT; EMISSION INVENTORY; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; HEALTH CARE; INNOVATION; RESOURCE USE; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; BIOGENESIS; BIOSPHERE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENVIRONMENT; GOVERNMENT; GREENHOUSE GAS; LIFE; NATURAL SCIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOLOGY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; ENERGY RESOURCE; EVOLUTION; HISTORY; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES;

ATMOSPHERE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATIC PROCESSES; EARTH (PLANET); ECOSYSTEM; ENERGY-GENERATING RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL FUELS; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS;

EID: 72949122803     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1184937     Document Type: Conference Paper

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