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Climate coverage down again in 2011
http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2012/01/climate-coverage-2011[font face=Times, Serif][font size=5]Climate coverage down again in 2011[/font]
Jan. 3, 2011
[font size=4]Climate change dropped even further from the world's headlines and newscasts last year.
Weird weather, Australia's carbon tax and Solyndra fracas weren't enough to stem a decline that started in 2009.[/font]
By Douglas Fischer
Daily Climate editor
[font size=3]Media coverage of climate change continued to tumble in 2011, declining roughly 20 percent from 2010's levels and nearly 42 percent from 2009's peak, according to analysis of DailyClimate.org's archive of global media.
The declining coverage came amid bouts of extreme weather across the globe – historic wildfires in Arizona, drought in Texas, famine in the Horn of Africa – and flashes of political frenzy. Australia's approval of a carbon tax, the U.S. presidential election, a Congressional inquiry into the failed solar startup Solyndra all generated significant coverage within the mainstream press, but it was not enough to stem the larger trend.
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Jan. 3, 2011
[font size=4]Climate change dropped even further from the world's headlines and newscasts last year.
Weird weather, Australia's carbon tax and Solyndra fracas weren't enough to stem a decline that started in 2009.[/font]
By Douglas Fischer
Daily Climate editor
[font size=3]Media coverage of climate change continued to tumble in 2011, declining roughly 20 percent from 2010's levels and nearly 42 percent from 2009's peak, according to analysis of DailyClimate.org's archive of global media.
The declining coverage came amid bouts of extreme weather across the globe – historic wildfires in Arizona, drought in Texas, famine in the Horn of Africa – and flashes of political frenzy. Australia's approval of a carbon tax, the U.S. presidential election, a Congressional inquiry into the failed solar startup Solyndra all generated significant coverage within the mainstream press, but it was not enough to stem the larger trend.
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