How is climate change being covered on television news? The timeline below shows total monthly mentions across CNN, MSNBC and Fox News over the past decade, showing that coverage really took off in 2012, accelerating at the end of 2018, peaking in mid-2019 and dropping sharply from October 2019 to June 2020 before increasing steadily since. Climate change coverage was decreasingly sharply prior to the pandemic, but has recovered much of its ground over the past year.