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Agency and the Assignment of Probabilities to Greenhouse Emissions Scenarios

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RISBEY, J.S. Agency and the Assignment of Probabilities to Greenhouse Emissions Scenarios. Climatic Change 67, 37–42 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-004-3762-1

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