How warm days increase belief in global warming

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 143-147

  Zaval, Lisa ^a,b   Keenan, Elizabeth A ^c   Johnson, Eric J ^b   Weber, Elke U ^a,b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b The Sanford C Bernstein Co Center for Leadership and Ethics   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL WARMING; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EID: 84896825941     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2093     Document Type: Article

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