Tracking public beliefs about anthropogenic climate change

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Hamilton, Lawrence C ^a   Hartter, Joel ^a,b   Lemcke Stampone, Mary ^c   Moore, David W ^a   Safford, Thomas G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c Geography Department   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSENSUS; DISASTER; EDUCATION; HUMAN; HURRICANE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; NEW HAMPSHIRE; QUESTIONNAIRE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEW HAMPSHIRE; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84947999081     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0138208     Document Type: Article

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