A blind expert test of contrarian claims about climate data

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 39, Issue , 2016, Pages 91-97

  Lewandowsky, Stephan ^a,b   Ballard, Timothy ^a,c   Oberauer, Klaus ^d   Benestad, Rasmus ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e NORWEGIAN METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate change denial; Public discourse about climate change

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA INTERPRETATION; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GLOBAL WARMING; PERCEPTION;

ARCTIC;

EID: 84967017685     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2016.04.013     Document Type: Article

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