Should we believe model predictions of future climate change?

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• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

• Publication date

  2008-12-28

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Physics, Computer Science, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1098/rsta.2008.0169PMID 18818153
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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