UK newspaper (mis)representations of the potential for a collapse of the Thermohaline Circulation

Area

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 444-456

  Jennings, Neil ^a   Hulme, Mike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abrupt climate change; Content analysis; Interviews; Media representations; Thermohaline Circulation; UK

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; MASS MEDIA; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 78049490887     PISSN: 00040894     EISSN: 14754762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4762.2009.00936.x     Document Type: Article

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