The graph below is
from the work of Max Boykoff, a friend and colleague from here at CU, and Maria Mansfield, University of Exeter. The graph shows a big drop off in media attention to climate change in the aftermath of the Copenhagen conference last December.
![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_tJnxOSb4E4j0pu57AfdRuecUmcMmxEESL43Ob4XcZFHY2C4raJHDGpOyP1BvtcRQC0UM8-v6vgZ3ikOK99hJeXuyjTvSaaAdJtwDDC1uTvozb5PvV0GUWFvtuzlu0ycnpXS-VUjQ=s0-d)
When I saw this graph it brought to mind a very similar graph of media attention from about 15 years ago, shown below from a paper that I did with Mickey Glantz in 1995 (on how to "sell" scientific programs to policy makers,
PDF). Notice any similarities?