An institutional critique of new climate scenarios

Climatic Change

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 447-458

  Lane, Lee ^a   Montgomery, W David ^b  

^a HUDSON INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NERA ECONOMIC CONSULTING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE POLICY; CLIMATE SCENARIOS; FUTURE CLIMATE; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; POLICY SCENARIO; SCENARIO BUILDING;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 84899811212     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-0919-9     Document Type: Article

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