Learning and Teaching Climate Science: The Perils of Consensus Knowledge Using Agnotology

Science and Education

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2007-2017

  Legates, David R ^a   Soon, Willie ^b   Briggs, William M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^c NONE

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EID: 84879929493     PISSN: 09267220     EISSN: 15731901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11191-013-9588-3     Document Type: Article

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