Climate change: Heat, health, and longer horizons

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

Volumn 107, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 9483-9484

  McMichael, Anthony J ^a   Dear, Keith B G ^a  

^a The Australian National University   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANXIETY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FOOD INDUSTRY; GREENHOUSE GAS; HEAT TOLERANCE; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE STRESS;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; GLOBAL WARMING; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS;

EID: 77953097064     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1004894107     Document Type: Note

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