Leading Voices in the Denier Choir: Conservative Columnists' Dismissal of Global Warming and Denigration of Climate Science

American Behavioral Scientist

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 754-776

  Elsasser, Shaun W ^a   Dunlap, Riley E ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

climate change; conservative columnists; denial machine; skeptical arguments

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877835416     PISSN: 00027642     EISSN: 15523381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002764212469800     Document Type: Article

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