Blogging climate change

There was an interesting post on the Celcias blog about a huge surge in awareness of climate change a while back. I’ve been wondering whether this is a trend that will continue.

I’ve always been interested in how ideas spread, especially important ideas. And I’ve always been interested in ways of tracking how widely an idea is spreading over time.

It’s only a certain type of person who blogs so using the blogsphere as a measure of general consciousness is flawed. Nevertheless, there are a lot of bloggers out there, and when you look at what they are saying over a given period of time you can get a useful measure of how an idea is spreading.

So I thought I’d pop over to Technorati to see how often the term ‘climate change’ is being mentioned in the blogsphere. This handy little graph shows that massive surge talked about on Celcias. It doesn’t look like the increased interest was a permanent change but there is a definite trend.

Climate change graph

It would be interesting to look at what was happening at the time of that big spike.

Here’s some related real time graphs.

Posts that contain "climate Change" per day for the last 30 days.

Posts that contain "global Warming" per day for the last 30 days.

Posts that contain "global Warming" And Greenpeace per day for the last 30 days.

Get your own chart!

7 Responses to “Blogging climate change”

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1 jim Mar 11th, 2007 at 9:58 pm

Bloody interesting that.
2 Atomo mouse Mar 11th, 2007 at 10:16 pm

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3 Atomo mouse Mar 11th, 2007 at 10:16 pm

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4 Eoin Dubsky Mar 16th, 2007 at 10:30 am

I looked at this last year, and blogged about the difference in online reporting and searching for “climate change” versus “global warming” — http://eoin.free.fr/blog/index.php/2006-07-02-tracking-global-warming-with-google-trends
5 Dr. Daan Vreugdenhil Mar 8th, 2008 at 10:07 am

One of the most urgent and yet effective measure of slowing down the release of CO2 in the admosphere is by effectively protecting forests and coral reefs in nature reserves and protected areas and thus preventing them from going up in CO2 blasting flames. This has been elaborated at my blog http://naturalplaces.blogspot.com/ and on our webpage http://www.adopt-a-ranger.org/carbon_offset.htm and http://www.birdlist.org/phpbb/viewforum.php?f=4
Moreover, this would be the only hope of preserving maybe 50% of the species on earth in the course of this century. So you may like it even if you don’t believe in global warming. It is a measure well worth taking!

To achieve this the world’s shortage of park rangers, estimated at over 100,000 in developing countries needs to be addressed. Currently no government or conservation organization in the world addresses this problem. that is why the Adopt A Ranger Foundation has been created.
6 Dr. Peter Gevorkian Apr 30th, 2008 at 4:55 am

Curreently I am in process of writing a book on renerwable energy systems studies and would like to know as to how I could access climate change graphics with higher resolutions.

Thanks,

Dr. Peter gevorkian PhD.