Climate system properties determining the social cost of carbon

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Otto, Alexander ^a   Todd, Benjamin J ^a   Bowerman, Niel ^a   Frame, David J ^a,b   Allen, Myles R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

climate response in policy discourse; climate sensitivity; fat tailed uncertainty; social cost of carbon; transient climate response

Indexed keywords

COSTS; GREENHOUSE GASES;

CLIMATE RESPONSE; CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; FAT-TAILED UNCERTAINTY; POLICY DISCOURSE; SOCIAL COST OF CARBON;

CARBON;

CLIMATE MODELING; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; FAT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84880911271     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/2/024032     Document Type: Article

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