SEE THE UPDATE AT THE END OF THE POST
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Joe Romm of ThinkProgess/Climate presented a graph yesterday that showed the dwindling newspaper coverage of global warming and climate change. See his post Silence of the Lambs: Climate Coverage Drops At Major U.S. Newspapers, Flatlines on TV. The graph was produced by the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Colorado. See their webpage here. U.S. Newspaper coverage of global warming and climate change peaked in 2006 and 2007 with the release of Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” and the IPCC/Gore nomination and award of the Nobel Peace Prize. Coverage has been declining ever since.
Worldwide newspaper coverage of global warming and climate change shows a curiously different curve.
Worldwide, newspaper coverage peaked in December 2009. And what does that coincide with? CLIMATEGATE!
It should go without saying, if global warming enthusiasts would like additional newspaper coverage, someone at one of the research facilities, or a hacker, will have to release another round of emails that show climate scientists behaving badly.
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UPDATE: A couple of bloggers suggested that the 2009 COP climate conference in Copenhagen may have been the cause of spike in 2009. The following gif animation compares screencaps of Google Trends for “Climate Conference”, “COP conference” and “Climategate”. The conferences occur annually but there was unusually high interest in the one in 2009 (that trailed Climategate by a few weeks).
Does this cover any uptick caused by The Ship of Fools? I couldn’t tell.
Eric Worrall says:
January 15, 2014 at 3:54 am
Bob, the really interesting question is what will they do next? Ocean acidification has fallen flat, and the Biotech and Nanotech revolutions are still too distant to command enough attention. Sea=
It look like Catastrophic Anthropgenic Sea Level Increase-We’re All Going to Drown is next. That esteem journal of “Climate Scientology,” the New York Times seens be running at least two articles a week about how one part or another of the Eastern seaboard is sinking and the oceans are rising not to mention the piece earlier in the week about a lake in the Dominican Republic that was discussed on WUWT. The local papers in my part of Northern California have all jumped on teh band wagon.
Perhaps for the MSM this is only near the end of the most extreme swing of the pendulum when everything slows down and goes quiet.
If the deliberately misnamed “pause” rolls on for another couple of years the popular and political backlash against the lies, deliberate untruths and corrupted and in some cases, fraudulent science of the alarmists and their running dogs in the MSM will start to get underway.
If by then the MSM wants to maintain any skerrick of veracity in the public’s increasingly cynical eyes they will have no real option but to repudiate just about everything they has previously promoted in climate alarmism.
That implies also that there may be a radical shake up in the editorial departments of the major MSM’s to move the most influential MSM promoters of climate warming alarmism out and to bring in fresh editorial blood who will want to be seen to be making a clean break with the what by then will be seen as an increasingly discredited science of a failed alarmistic agenda driven climate catastrophe industry.
[ NYT’s dismantlement of it’s climate and environmental desks a couple of months ago ? ]
That also may well mean a short but considerable increase in the volume of MSM reports and the opening up to examination by the MSM of the entrails of a corrupted and tainted alarmist science and the quite deliberate agenda driven corruption of the political process by the most alarmist catastrophe advocates from climate science circles.
This along with the revealing and investigation of the corrupted and scamming green environmental and renewable energy industries which are so closely tied and in bed with the worst of the agenda driven green catastrophic climate promoters, a sharing of beds that has served both so well in scamming immense amounts of public funds from a public who the green and alarmist science and renewable energy scammers tried to make damn sure that the public were never going to be given the choice or say on how and where their hard earned should be used for the maximum benefit of society.
The scammers have failed in this goal as climate science alarmism and it’s agendas has been voted on so recently by the Australian public.
The voting patterns show very clearly indeed that there was a huge reservoir of resentment out there in that land of the proletariat, a land that is almost totally foreign to the green and academic promoters and agenda drivers inside the goat cheese circles of the inner cities who are the main promoters of the always just around the corner global warming catastrophe and who are constantly demanding that governments to take drastic but never clearly specified action to “save the planet” all over again! With the proviso of course that their own overpaid and quite lavish life styles will be unaffected in any way and will continue on as before.
There is a long way to go in this modern saga of the total corruption of science, politics , finance and society to an epic level and the MSM may well stay deeply involved but in a manner and with a new goal that the alarmists may never have envisaged or imagined in their wildest and worst dreams.
As has been said before;
“A revolution devours it’s children”
Peter in MD says: @ur momisugly January 15, 2014 at 5:05 am
…Leon, looks like it’s time to vote more Democrats out of office!
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The problem is trying to figure out what to vote IN to office since they are almost all crookeder than a dog’s hind leg. I generally figure it is safer to vote in a new little piglet rather than an older hog with hopes he doesn’t suck as much out of the public trough.
What if no warming or even cooling goes on for 10 more years?
I think that the narrative will be that rising CO2 levels cause freaky weather just before the “tipping point” and that the colder weather proves that we are going to experience runaway global warming real soon if we don’t act now. Pity the polar bears!
The average man might just be dumb enough to buy that narrative, or he might not be. But academics will buy it in a heartbeat because they are … well, lets not overwork our nice moderators.
What if no warming or even cooling goes on for 10 more years?
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The stumble after the “tripping point”?
@ur momisugly hunter
“Some lefty extremist US Senators”
There are no lefty Senators. American politicians are either right-wingers or extreme right wingers.
@ur momisugly M Courtney
A5 received little coverage because it prophesied only moderated doom. Simply not newsworthy.
I think that all of you have got it wrong and that the evil Exxon-Mobil have finally achieved their nefarious ends. But……when is their cheque going to arrive, I’ve been waiting for it for ages.
@RoHa
You must be mistaking your no lefty Senators, with some other Senate. It is certainly not the case in the US Senate, unless you think Cuba is a centrist government.
Total federal spending for fiscal year 2012 reached $3.6 trillion, or 22.9 percent the size of the entire U.S. economy. In the past 20 years, federal outlays have grown 71 percent faster than inflation. The average American household’s share of this spending is $29,691, roughly two-thirds of median household income. This relentless growth is projected to continue, pushing total government outlays to $5.5 trillion a decade from now, and to about 36 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in the next 25 years.
This out-of-control spending is why we can’t generate any job growth. Families have a “baby Huey” living with them eating up any discretionary spending. The relentless growth in government, means the public is driving the same car longer, cutting back on purchases, and generally unable to spend on vacations or entertainment. That means entry level jobs are rare, and without opportunity for advancement.
@Russ R.
Heavy government spending, and growth of government, does not make “lefties” of the politicians who support it.
The integral role played by the media is not surprising, as it is still the main source of information and opinion for millions of readers and viewers—and voters—through newspapers, magazines, television, radio and the internet. As people gain most of their political, economic or other news from the media, so they do with scientific stories. Various studies have shown that the public gathers much of its knowledge about science from the mass media ( Wilson, 1995 ), with television and daily newspapers being the primary sources of information ( Project for Excellence in Journalism, 2006 ; NSF, 2004 ). Given their wide reach, it is therefore important to investigate the media’s coverage of scientific topics and how it influences both science and policy. In this viewpoint, we survey the media’s portrayal of climate science and man-made climate change—dubbed ‘global warming’, or anthropogenic climate change—and its coverage in the USA and UK as an important example of how science, politics and the media intersect and interact. More specifically, we explore how external influences and internal factors shape and define media coverage of climate science.
Awww shucks, the weather forecasters predicting Adelaide would crack the record temp set in 1939 (bearing in mind Australia has only had a reasonable Stevenson Screen network for around 100 years) got it wrong by a couple of degrees but people are still gunna die folks-
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/experts-warn-south-australias-fiveday-heatwave-will-claim-lives-as-163-people-become-hospitalised/story-fnl1ee8j-1226803667585
“PEOPLE will inevitably die from South Australia’s extreme heatwave, one of the state’s leading health figures has warned.
While the 44.2C maximum reached in Adelaide on Thursday was almost 2C degrees below predictions [UN alarmists where are you?], the fourth-consecutive day of 40+ temperatures continued to stretch the state’s health system.
The number of people hospitalised across the state with heat-related conditions since Monday had reached 163 by 4pm on Thursday.
SA Health chief public officer Dr Stephen Christley said while there was yet to be a reported death from the heatwave, which enters its fifth day today, heat-related fatalities were inevitable.”
So no one has died but we’ve had around 40 people hospitalised each day for 4 days out of a population of over 1.65 million, bearing in mind we’re the driest State in the driest continent and largely full of desert, goannas and snakes-http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@ur momisugly.nsf/Products/3218.0~2011-12~Main+Features~South+Australia?OpenDocument
Listening to all the usual taxeaters and politicians falling all over themselves to be the most alarmist upfront in the media about the potential death and destruction of a typical summer heat wave, you’d have thought it was Y2K all over again.
Have a chuckle at the old timers remembering 1939 ‘record’ temp and some brief sanity among the usual hyperventilators we’ve had to endure for 4 days in the MSM-
Damn you northern Yankees! You’ve stolen our Southern cool again 😉
@RoHa
“Heavy government spending, and growth of government, does not make “lefties” of the politicians who support it.”
Well I guess it “takes one, to know one”. You certainly have the proper “lefty” properties of talking gibberish, so that no one can tell, what your true intentions are.
Speaking of Adelaide’s temperature record, it’s quite a record relatively speaking-
http://joannenova.com.au/2014/01/forgotten-historic-hot-temperatures-recorded-with-detail-and-care-in-adelaide/
Russ R. says: @ur momisugly January 16, 2014 at 6:16 am
Well I guess it “takes one, to know one”. You certainly have the proper “lefty” properties of talking gibberish, so that no one can tell, what your true intentions are.
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I suggest you read E.M. Smith’s info on “Left” vs “Right” It is just more of the smoke and mirrors the MSM propaganda machine drowns us in and keep us at each others throats.. “Evil Socialism” vs “Evil Capitalism”
The real problem is younger people (minus 50) don’t remember this. And that the memories are swayed by the dishonest and incompetent academics and pseudo scientists who are banking on this. All I can say you can bet it will get cooler in a few months. That’s autumn followed by winter, climate changes naturally.