Anthropogenic global warming hypothesis: Testing its robustness by Granger causality analysis

Environmetrics

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 260-268

  Triacca, Umberto ^a   Attanasio, Alessandro ^b   Pasini, Antonello ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Climatic attribution; Granger causality; Time series

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; RESEARCH WORK; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TIME SERIES;

EID: 84878200886     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: 1099095X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/env.2210     Document Type: Article

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