The relationship between personal experience and belief in the reality of global warming

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 343-347

  Myers, Teresa A ^a   Maibach, Edward W ^a   Roser Renouf, Connie ^a   Akerlof, Karen ^a   Leiserowitz, Anthony A ^b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; GLOBAL WARMING; LONGITUDINAL GRADIENT; PERCEPTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84875754149     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1754     Document Type: Article

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