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Interpreting the Paris Agreement’s 1.5C temperature limit
Posted on 27 October 2017 by Guest Author
This is a re-post from Carbon Brief
Dr Joeri Rogelj is a research scholar at the International Institute for Applied...
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By Pat Brennan,NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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