Fig 2. General salience of climate change and resonance of skeptical discourse for the period from July 2012 to June 2014.

Plots (A-F): Salience of climate change in legacy media (A), divergence measures (B, D, F), share measures (C, E). Shown are the separate measurements for the websites of climate change skeptics, conservative legacy media, and other media (points) as well as the trend line for each of the three categories (lines). A trend line with positive incline indicates an growing number of articles on climate change (A), growing share of skeptical actors (C), growing share of skeptical actors (E), growing thematic divergence (B), growing positional divergence (D), growing divergence regarding the visibility of skeptical actors (F).