Paleoclimate implications for human-made climate change

Climate Change: Inferences from Paleoclimate and Regional Aspects

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 21-47

  Hansen, James E ^a   Sato, Makiko ^a  

^a Center for International Forestry Research   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7091-0973-1_2     Document Type: Chapter

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