The impacts of temperature anomalies and political orientation on perceived winter warming

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1077-1081

  McCright, Aaron M ^a   Dunlap, Riley E ^b   Xiao, Chenyang ^c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS; GLOBAL WARMING; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MITIGATION; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; PERCEPTION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WINTER;

EID: 84923108032     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2443     Document Type: Article

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