Climate change sentiment on Twitter: An unsolicited public opinion poll

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Cody, Emily M ^a,b,d   Reagan, Andrew J ^a,b   Mitchell, Lewis ^c   Dodds, Peter Sheridan ^a,b   Danforth, Christopher M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b University of Vermont   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^d School of Mathematical Sciences University of Adelaide ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CLIMATE CHANGE; GENERAL DEVICE; HAPPINESS; HEDONOMETER; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; NATURAL DISASTER; PUBLIC OPINION; PUBLICATION; SOCIAL MEDIA; STRATEGIC PLANNING; TWITTER; DISASTER; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DISASTERS; GLOBAL WARMING; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; PUBLIC OPINION; SOCIAL MEDIA;

EID: 84942938595     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0136092     Document Type: Article

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