Temperature change vs. cumulative radiative forcing as metrics for evaluating climate consequences of energy system choices

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

Volumn 109, Issue 27, 2012, Pages

  Caldeira, Ken ^a   Myhrvold, Nathan P ^b  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Intellectual Ventures   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; COAL;

ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; DIFFUSION; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; EXHAUST GAS; FORCE; GAS; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HEAT ACCLIMATIZATION; LETTER; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; RADIATION ENERGY; RADIOMETRY; SEA; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION;

EID: 84863582813     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1206019109     Document Type: Letter

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