Lost in translation? United States television news coverage of anthropogenic climate change, 1995-2004

Climatic Change

Volumn 86, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 1-11

  Boykoff, Maxwell T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PUBLIC POLICY; TELEVISION BROADCASTING;

CLIMATE SCIENTISTS; TELEVISION NEWS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL CHANGE; POLICY APPROACH; TELEVISION;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 37549042795     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-007-9299-3     Document Type: Article

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