Anthropogenic climate change and the nature of Earth system science

Anthropocene Review

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 70-75

  Oldfield, Frank ^a   Steffen, Will ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b The Climate Council of Australia   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anthropocene; Climate change sceptics; Earth system science

Indexed keywords

EID: 85006200474     PISSN: 20530196     EISSN: 2053020X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2053019613514862     Document Type: Article

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