How do people update? The effects of local weather fluctuations on beliefs about global warming

Climatic Change

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 397-416

  Deryugina, Tatyana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PUBLIC POLICY; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

CONTRIBUTING FACTOR; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; LOCAL TEMPERATURE; POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES; SPREADING ACTIVATIONS; SUPPORT POLICY; SURVEY DATA; TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATION;

GLOBAL WARMING;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA ACQUISITION; GLOBAL WARMING; HEURISTICS; HUMAN ACTIVITY; POLITICAL IDEOLOGY; SURVEY; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WEATHER MODIFICATION;

EID: 84876685097     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0615-1     Document Type: Article

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