Obama going to Copenhagen for climate conference

Would he or would he not? After all he had to accept the Nobel Prize the same week. Breaking news, The Washington Post reports that he will go to the climate conference for a day before accepting the award.

9:45 AM EST Saturday, November 25, 2009

President Obama will travel to Copenhagen Dec. 9, a day before accepting the Nobel Peace Price in Oslo, to help launch a U.N.-sponsored global climate change summit, a White House official said. The president will meet with other world leaders gathered for the summit, which is scheduled for Dec. 7-18.

For more information, visit washingtonpost.com - http://link.email.washingtonpost.com/r/BZYGW4/86XVF/ON4VAH/FJE7QM/FQY0S/82/t

I compared three searches using TweetVolume. Their results were rather different than what I found using Archivist.

With Archivist "obama going copenhagen" produced only a couple of hundred messages. "obama copenhagen" found 1500 messages. About three-fourths of "obama copenhagen" were specifically about the announcement that he was going. The earliest quarter were about the conference and what he had done going up to the meeting.

Search phrase: "obama copenhagen"

The first search was made about an hour after the 'breaking news' from The Post and found 1500 messages. About three-fourths were about the decision to go to the conference on the way to receive the Nobel Prize.

There is already another search about the conference -- copenhagen-treaty. It has been used by opponents of the treaty, for the most part. I am sure messages about his going will show up there as well as here. It should make for interesting overlapping of different centers.

More breaking news about Obama and Copenhagen

News Alert
06:37 AM EDT Friday, December 18, 2009

Obama: Climate agreement so far is not perfect, but nations must take action now

President spoke after holding emergency meetings with world leaders in an attempt to seal a last-minute climate change deal on the final day of the global climate-change summit.

For more information, visit washingtonpost.com - http://link.email.washingtonpost.com/r/C7I8XW/11QCD/6Z1JFK/V0SOXX/TBDLH/OS/t

Time to stop the search. At 9:35 a.m. January 1, 2010 24,056 had been found. The Archivist trendline is

There are a couple of spikes in late November and early December. Then the really large spike happens at the height of the meeting.

The .txt file ready to be read by Excel is obama copenhagen.txt.