Climate emergencies do not justify engineering the climate

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 290-292

  Sillmann, Jana ^a   Lenton, Timothy M ^b   Levermann, Anders ^c,d   Ott, Konrad ^e   Hulme, Mike ^f   Benduhn, François ^g   Horton, Joshua B ^h  

^a CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH OSLO CICERO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^f KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED SUSTAINABILITY STUDIES   (Germany)

^h HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON EMISSION; CLIMATE MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; GREENHOUSE GAS;

EID: 84925697882     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2539     Document Type: Review

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