This graphic depicts a significant drop in Canadian news coverage of climate change since 2007.
According to Andrew Weaver, a leading Canadian climate researcher, the numbers aren't any better in the United States. He explains that the release of the 4th Assessment report of the IPCC and Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth spawned a great deal of public engagements in Canada and the U.S. in 2007. But since then, coverage has steadily diminished due, in part, to aggressive efforts to discredit the science.
Weaver is one of the experts cited in this recent article by Toronto Star feature writer Antonia Zerbisias. Zerbisias points out that while traditional media's interest in climate change is on the decline, the Internet is arguably what has kept the issue on the radar. She bases her assessment on Maxwell Boycoff's latest book, Who Speaks for the Climate? Making sense of media reporting on climate change. Boycoff makes the case, among other things, that online news coverage is steadily on the rise.
This YouTube video features a seminar Boycoff gave on the book at Oxford in July of 2011.
