On MotherJones.com, another great website for things from ebvirnonemnt to general social culture, i found this great image showing the google searches for global warming pause during the time that the 'pause' in atmospheric warming was discussed in the media and published by the IPCC. After the IPCC draft "came out" a bit early in September, 2013, the searches for it jumped dramatically! This begs the question, is at least a good thing that the public is becoming engaged/interested in climate change, even if the internet search may not have/probably not made it clear what the pause was really about. I would assume (but one would hope incorrect) that an average Joe heard that the global warming had stopped and thought "hey I'll look that up!"
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I thought it would be interesting to do a more updated look at the searches for Google trends of Global Warming Pause as of today (9 December 2013). The highest points in September of "100" denote that at least 10% of all searches within a geographic region were for your chosen term. Both graphs show a bit different story. The first graph, the last 12 months as actually rather interesting, as it shows that interest in the pause (which is really not a new idea or hypothesis if you are up to date with published scientific literature) began in the beginning of June, before the Economist or IPPC was released. The second one, the last 90 days show that after IPPC was released, the searches were actually rather steady until beginning of November where it gradually went to "60" mid November and as of today, the values are so low as to denote no percent.This is a pretty handy tool i found! my graphs are below. For a run-down in the pause and some explanations for all the confusion on it, a good link is here:
Mooney, C. 2013. Is Global warming really Slowing Down? Mother Jones. http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/08/global-warming-slowdown-ipcc |
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