Heat and disasters spur climate researchers
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چکیده
Climate researchers are bouncing back in spite of fresh criticism of the IPCC management and are looking to understand catastrophic individual events.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Current Biology
دوره 20 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2010