How to communicate the scientific consensus on climate change: plain facts, pie charts or metaphors?

Climatic Change

Volumn 126, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 255-262

  van der Linden, Sander L ^a   Leiserowitz, Anthony A ^a   Feinberg, Geoffrey D ^a   Maibach, Edward W ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS;

ON-LINE EXPERIMENTS; PIE CHART; POLITICAL PARTIES; PUBLIC PERCEPTION; PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84919684781     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-014-1190-4     Document Type: Article

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