Comment on 'Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature'

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Tol, Richard S J ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d TINBERGEN INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^e CESIFO   (Germany)

Author keywords

climate change; consensus; survey methods

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL WARMING;

ANTHROPOGENIC GLOBAL WARMING; BEST ESTIMATES; CONSENSUS; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SURVEY METHODS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; LITERATURE REVIEW; SURVEY METHOD;

EID: 84964583000     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/4/048001     Document Type: Review

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