A rose by any other name...?: What members of the general public prefer to call "climate change"

Climatic Change

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 699-710

  Akerlof, Karen ^a   Maibach, Edward W ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC GREENHOUSE GAS; ATMOSPHERIC CONCENTRATION; CONSTRUCTIVE DIALOGUE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS; GENERAL PUBLICS; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; MODAL RESPONSE; PUBLIC PERCEPTION; PUBLIC PREFERENCES;

GREENHOUSE GASES;

GLOBAL WARMING;

EID: 79955840528     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0070-4     Document Type: Letter

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