The most advanced and comprehensive analysis of climate sensitivity yet undertaken has revealed with more confidence than ever before how sensitive the Earth's climate is to carbon dioxide. The new ...

This chapter concerns principles and methods for sensitivity analyses that quantify the robustness of inferences to departures from underlying assumptions. Unlike the well-developed literature on ...

The primary goal of this research was to minimise the energy consumed by heating and cooling loads in residential buildings in a sub-humid Mediterranean climate zone. This was achieved by optimising ...