Nullifying the climate null hypothesis

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 919-924

  Curry, Judith ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL WARMING; STATISTICAL TESTS;

BURDEN OF PROOF; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMAN INFLUENCES; NULL HYPOTHESIS; POLICY DEBATES; POLICY DECISIONS; SCIENTIFIC HYPOTHESIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 80855130970     PISSN: 17577780     EISSN: 17577799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wcc.141     Document Type: Note

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