National climate assessment news cycle wanes

This figure presents twitter traffic for #climatechange, and any tweets with the terms "climate change" or "climate" from 17 April to 17 May 2014.    There is some increase in traffic on Earth Day on April 22nd.  On 6 May 2014, the National Climate Assessment is released and President Obama announces his Climate Plan and twitter traffic spikes on climate change.    Within 10 days, however, the news cycle appears to be over.

--Dana R. Fisher, drfisher@umd.edu