This procedure means, in effect, the assigning of a logical priority to the specification of a frame of reference for the purposes of subsequent physical analysis. (religion-online.org)
What is our concern is that the inference regarding climate sensitivity is precisely opposite what elementary mathematical and physical analysis dictates it should be. (realclimate.org)
In other words, the study does a simple physical analysis of the trade off between conventional mitigation and negative emissions technologies in a 2C world and makes no assumptions about changing economic, technological and sociopolitical contexts, the authors note. (carbonbrief.org)