Tall tales and fat tails: the science and economics of extreme warming

Climatic Change

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 127-141

  Calel, Raphael ^a   Stainforth, David A ^a   Dietz, Simon ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SPECIFIC HEAT; TEMPERATURE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION; CLIMATE MITIGATIONS; CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC EVALUATIONS; ECONOMIC MODELS; SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES; TRANSIENT TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84940719712     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-0911-4     Document Type: Article

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