Back in the Headlines: Climate Coverage Returns to Its 2009 Peak

Call it the new black:  Climate change again is in vogue, with media coverage in 2014 fully recovered – for now – from its recession-era dip, based on an analysis of The Daily Climate's archives.

Coverage grew for a second straight year, approaching its 2009 high and rebounding nearly 70  percent above its 2012 low.

Driving the trend were energy and political stories:  fracking, coal regulations, the UN climate talks all had more coverage last year than in 2013. 

Last year The Daily Climate aggregated 31,407 climate-themed news stories, opinions and editorials from mainstream media, center right to center left.  Politics dominated the haul, with 44 percent of all stories having a predominately political theme, as identified by The Daily Climate staff.

But there's little question that the lull in coverage – which started as the UN Copenhagen talks collapsed in 2009, the "Climategate" email hack sowed doubts about climate science and a global recession took hold – is over.

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