Consequences of twenty-first-century policy for multi-millennial climate and sea-level change

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 360-369

  Clark, Peter U ^a   Shakun, Jeremy D ^b   Marcott, Shaun A ^c   Mix, Alan C ^a   Eby, Michael ^d,e   Kulp, Scott ^f   Levermann, Anders ^g,h,i   Milne, Glenn A ^j   Pfister, Patrik L ^k   Santer, Benjamin D ^l   Schrag, Daniel P ^m   Solomon, Susan ⁿ   Stocker, Thomas F ^k   Strauss, Benjamin H ^f   Weaver, Andrew J ^d   Winkelmann, Ricarda ^g   Archer, David ^o   Bard, Edouard ^p   Goldner, Aaron ^q   Lambeck, Kurt ^r,s   Pierrehumbert, Raymond T ^t   Plattner, Gian Kasper ^k   more..

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^e SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f Climate Central   (United States)

^g POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^h Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^j UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^k UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^l LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^m HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁿ MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^p AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^q AAAS   (United States)

^r AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^s CNRS   (France)

^t UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CARBON EMISSION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GLOBAL CLIMATE; POLICY ANALYSIS; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

EID: 84962274909     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2923     Document Type: Review

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