'Ye Olde Hot Aire': Reporting on human contributions to climate change in the UK tabloid press

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Boykoff, Maxwell T ^a   Mansfield, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic; Climate change; Content analysis; Media; Tabloids; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; MIRRORS; NEWSPRINT;

ANTHROPOGENIC; CONTENT ANALYSIS; MEDIA; TABLOIDS; UNITED KINGDOM;

PRESSES (MACHINE TOOLS);

EID: 46749093048     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/3/2/024002     Document Type: Article

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