Who remembers a hot summer or a cold winter? The asymmetric effect of beliefs about global warming on perceptions of local climate conditions in the U.S.

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1488-1500

  Howe, Peter D ^a,b   Leiserowitz, Anthony ^b  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Experience; Global warming; Motivated reasoning; Risk perception; Spatial analysis; Survey research

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; PERCEPTION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SUMMER; SURVEY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WINTER;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84889090208     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.09.014     Document Type: Article

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