You’ve got to hand it to the Pope, his timing couldn’t have been better with the “Endafticle”. Because it now looks as if the Pope killed “Global Warming”!!
As the following graph shows, “Global warming” (Blue) a term almost exclusively used for climate, has been on the wane since even before Climategate and was heading below “Climate change” (red), a term very often used in other contexts other than climate such as economics or politics in the phrase “there’s been a change in climate concerning …”
Google trends for “Global warming” (blue) and “Climate change” (red) showing the long term decline of Global warming.
It was almost inevitable that sooner or later Global warming would drop below the pretty steady chatter level of all things that have the phrase “climate change”, however, it ironic that the Pope appears to have delivered the final “coup de grace”.
Because rather than increasing support for Global warming extremism, the actual effect of the Pope’s intervention was a marked drop in support in the weeks afterwards. So almost by some act of god, the Pope (after a Sunday of news chit chat) gave “Global warming” that final push down below “Climate Change” whereby the term is now almost indistinguishable from the background noise (much like global warming itself I suppose – how prosaic!)
Last year of trend showing the popes intervention (marked) which caused a temporary increase in the “Climate change” term and drop in “Global warming”, thereby pushing “Global warming” down under “Climate change” (apparently for good).
On a more practical front
Because “Global warming” is now almost part of the background noise of the internet (and soon it will just be just noise), I’m less and less confident that any trends I see are specific to climate. And I can’t use “climate change” as easily because it both doesn’t have such clear trends because it is not specific to climate.
I’ve certainly noticed a drop in the number of “Global warming” stories on google news feeds. The result is that ratio of “signal to noise” is diminishing, so, I am struggling to keep tabs of the few stories on climate/global warming. That means I’m going to be far less certain that any trends are real as “Global warming” sinks disgracefully down into the background noise.
I think the charts are proof that much of the interest on climate change is from students googling answers to the green propaganda in their courses. The public as a whole have gone right off the boil.
The reality is worse than in looks, because almost all the interest these days is from outside the US/UK and similar countries. Instead its places like India, and Philippines.