Fig. 1: Example of attention to environmental issues around extreme weather events.
From: Extreme weather events do not increase political parties' environmental attention
Daily number of press releases in Germany six weeks before and after the 2016 flood. Green boxes indicate press release categorized as Environment. The green curve represents LOESS (locally estimated scatterplot smoothing) applied to daily average attention toward the environment. Of all press releases in this time frame (n = 1,093), 2.3% fall into category 7: Environment.
