It'd true that I see more stories in the summer. However, what I meant by ignoring the crisis was not a blackout of coverage, but rather the quality of the coverage. For a long time journalists have misreported the story by pretending there are two sides to the story. That is like the pretense that there are two sides on evolution. There is scientific consensus on both issues, outlier crackpots notwithstanding. This false coverage is why the public is not in complete agreement with the scientific community regarding climate change. And why the public doesn't understand the current state of scientific consensus:
"These generalizations are based on a series of Yale University studies over the last few years. According to Yale, Americans’ belief in global warming fell from 71 percent in November 2008 to just 57 percent in January 2010 but rebounded to 66 percent by this spring. The findings mirrored those of the National Survey of American Public Opinion on Climate Change, which showed belief in global warming bouncing from 65 percent in 2009 to 52 percent in 2010 and back up to 62 percent this year.
What accounts for the rebound? It isn’t the economy, which has thawed only a little. And it doesn’t seem to be science: The percentage of respondents to the Yale survey who believe “most scientists think global warming is happening” is stuck at 35 percent, still way down from 48 percent four years ago. (The statement remains just as true now as it was then—it’s the public, not the scientists, that keeps changing its mind.)"
Global warming and the weather: Americans believe in climate change again