From Dr. Roger Pielke Jr’s Twitter feed:
http://twitter.com/RogerPielkeJr/status/375310167916560385
One graph says it all, especially after I annotated it for climate news spike events.
Source of original: http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/media_coverage/us/index.html
Note that WUWT was at the source/center of two spikes: Climategate and the IPCC AR5 leak. Always happy to help.
Soon you will be able to buy a newspaper for a buck, too, to go with your blog & TV programming to become a media magnate/press lord.
Is this the media pause before coverage starts to switch the other way?
The question is how will the peak at the official release of AR5 compare with AR3 and AR4?
Let me guess from the graphs, as a non-US citizen, that the NYT and the LA Times are the biggest bugaboo green rags.
Even the media, after all, are in the end driven by what the Public is willing to pay attention too. And the plain and simple truth is – no one cares about this mess anymore. It’s just so 2007.
When the snows of winter begin falling in mid-October, sunspot numbers continue to decline, arctic ice zooms to early records, and we still haven’t had a hurricane, will the media begin to realize something is not quite right with their favorite meme? Will Al Gore’s head finally explode? Will some of the lead AGW “scientists” have to be put on suicide watch?
It’s possibly the beginning of the pendulum starting to swing towards actual science and the truth. For now though, the press is just not reporting that potential change at all. Silence does speak volumes, but it would be nice for the MSM to at least admit that maybe, just maybe the whole CO2 global warming scheme wasn’t quite accurate. In a few more years, they will have no choice.
Gary Pearse says:
September 4, 2013 at 2:00 pm
Let me guess from the graphs, as a non-US citizen, that the NYT and the LA Times are the biggest bugaboo green rags.
True regarding NYT, but recall they dropped their entire environmental department a few weeks ago, IIRC.
Go on – get a 97% statistic out of that!!!
This is intentionally misleading, studies have proven (with 97% certainty) that newspaper coverage of climate issues is still at record levels, it’s just hiding in the deep oceans for now.
Anthony! It’s time to move. Buy a TV station and a newspaper.
REPLY: Yah, sure. I’ll just call up the Exxon-Mobil company and ask for a petty cash disbursement /sarc – Anthony
Where are the missing articles? In the deep ocean.
Reporters absorb propaganda from the warmunist scientists radiating it, and re-emit it as global warming articles. But deep oceans can mask global warming news articles for decade-long periods. The pause must be due to hidden news articles in the deep ocean, with deeper layers absorbing a disproportionate amount of BS due to changes in oceanic circulation.
The news coverage of global warming has not disappeared, and so it cannot be ignored. It must have consequences.
Meanwhile, the war for control rages on…
http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/obama-s-stealth-war-on-global-warming-20130829
Unfortunately, The Weather Channel is still pushing the hoax.
Jack T:
I’m not holding my breath; it will take a lot for MSM to admit that they were hoodwinked.
When the new IPCC report comes out it will climb quite a bit but will fall back shortly thereafter. How’s that for SWAG?
What are you going to do if/when the collectivist media starts printing accurate stories about the climate? Will you get a haircut and get a real job??? LOL!
Looks like we’ve peaked!
http://endingactivism.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/issueattentioncycle.png
The Issue Attention Cycle
http://cstpr.colorado.edu/students/envs_5720/downs_1972.pdf
Cynical Scientst says:
September 4, 2013 at 1:55 pm
Is this the media pause before coverage starts to switch the other way?
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And do we have to wait 16 years?
Soon they will be headlining that a new ice age is coming and we’ll all doomed.
Gore’s book/movie was a tipping point! Who would have thought?
It doesn’t matter, they have won. They are about to start teaching man made climate change and social justice across the country with Common Core.
@Rhoda R
The Weather Channel and National Geographic.
The Weather Channel, and likewise the formerly science-based magazine ‘Civil Engineering’, the organ of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Nearly every article, focused on one or another design of building or bridge or process, ritually inserts numerous references to the greenhouse-gas virtues of the design under discussion. Just one recent article – on Roman cement – inserts ‘environmentally friendly’, and ‘reduce carbon footprint’, and ‘cuts greenhouse gas emissions’, and ’emits significant amounts of carbon dioxide’, and ‘use less fuel and emit less carbon dioxide’, and ‘significant emission of CO2’. Perhaps that’s just one way of bulking up the articles to their word quotas, but it’s quite obvious that the ‘Engineering’ process in its masthead – which is supposed to hardheadedly evaluate physical and economic tradeoffs – has been infected with religious fervor based on Al Gore’s crusade as an article of faith.
Along the lines of the news media, Al Jazeera has appeared on my list of stations available on Comcast Cable in the South NJ area and they are advertising heavily so every one knows.
At the same time Egypt is reportedly banning Al Jazeera because of their radical reports.
Go figure?