Paris Climate Agreement: Beacon of Hope

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This volume presents an Empirical Model of Global Climate developed by the authors and uses that model to show that global warming will likely remain below 2ºC, relative to preindustrial, throughout this century provided: a) both the unconditional...

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Main Authors: Salawitch, Ross J. (Author), Canty, Timothy P. (Author), Hope, Austin P. (Author), Tribett, Walter R. (Author), Bennett, Brian F. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Series:Springer Climate,
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46939-3
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