Climate engineering and climate tipping-point scenarios

Environmentalist

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 152-167

  Eric Bickel, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Abrupt climate change; Climate change; Climate engineering; Climate change economics; Geoengineering; Risk analysis; Scenario analysis; Tipping points

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; GREENHOUSE GAS; RADIATION DAMAGE; SOLAR RADIATION; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EARTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY;

EID: 84875398819     PISSN: 02511088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10669-013-9435-8     Document Type: Article

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