Public interest in climate change over the past decade and the effects of the 'climategate' media event

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Anderegg, William R L ^a   Goldsmith, Gregory R ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

focusing events; global warming; media coverage; new media; science communication; search engines

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL WARMING; PERSONAL COMPUTING; SEARCH ENGINES; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGES; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; MEDIA COVERAGE; NEW MEDIA; PUBLIC PERCEPTION; RAPID ASSESSMENT; SCIENCE COMMUNICATIONS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL PATTERNS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; GLACIER RETREAT; GLOBAL WARMING; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; MEDIA ROLE; PERCEPTION; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; TELECOMMUNICATION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84901815064     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/5/054005     Document Type: Article

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