IPCC underestimates the sun's role in climate change

Energy and Environment

Volumn 24, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 431-453

  Van Geel, Bas ^a   Ziegler, Peter A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; GLOBAL WARMING; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION;

CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; NATURAL LABORATORIES; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; STRATOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE INCREASE;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; GLOBAL WARMING; IRRADIATION; SOLAR ACTIVITY; SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 84880285535     PISSN: 0958305X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/0958-305X.24.3-4.431     Document Type: Article

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