Recent Carbon Brief articles by Roz Pidcock

Dr Roz Pidcock was previously our deputy editor and science editor. She covered new research in the climate sciences and media coverage of climate change. She has a PhD in physical oceanography from the University of Southampton and previously worked in the science communication unit at the University of the West of England, Bristol. Roz left Carbon Brief in 2017, and returned in January 2022.

• In-depth: What Donald Trump’s budget means for US spending on climate change
• Factcheck: Newspaper claim about global temperature is ‘deeply misleading’
• Scientists compare climate change impacts at 1.5C and 2C
• Analysis: Is the UK relying on ‘negative emissions’ to meet its climate targets?
• Guest post: Do we need BECCS to avoid dangerous climate change?
• Mapped: How climate change will slow progress towards curbing malnutrition
• The Carbon Brief Interview: Michel Jarraud
• Interactive: What will 2C and 4C of warming mean for sea level rise?
• The Carbon Brief Interview: Prof Nebojsa Nakicenovic
• The Carbon Brief Interview: Dr Hoesung Lee
• New NASA videos show stark ice loss from Earth’s ice sheets
• 10 years on from Hurricane Katrina: What have we learned?
• Climate change set to fuel more “monster” El Niños, scientists warn
• Two degree climate target not possible without ‘negative emissions’, scientists warn
• New study shrinks the gap between observed and modelled global temperatures
• Iconic British birds and wildlife at risk from climate change
• UK academics call for strong action on climate change at Paris summit
• Met Office: Wind data dispels doubt about cause of Heathrow high temperatures
• Climate change is biggest cause of stress on world’s oceans
• The Carbon Brief Interview: Prof Chris Field
• A Carbon Brief guide to the Our Common Future conference in Paris – Final day
• The most influential climate change papers of all time
• Tackling climate change will reap benefits for human health
• Explainer: Will rising temperatures mean more lives are saved than lost?
• Irreversible loss of world’s ice cover should spur leaders into action, say scientists
• No ‘slowdown’ in global surface temperatures after all, study finds
• The Carbon Brief Interview: Thomas Stocker
• Scientists warn against premature predictions of a “substantial” El Niño
• Monthly global carbon dioxide tops 400ppm for first time
• What the UK public thinks about climate change and energy – in seven charts
• Prof Richard Muller: Not adjusting global temperature records would be “poor science”
• Human activity responsible for three out of four heat extremes, study finds
• Climate adaptation could slash cost of flood damages by 96%, study shows
• Flood damages in Europe to increase 200% by the end of the century, scientists warn
• The Carbon Brief interview: Jean-Pascal van Ypersele
• Climate sensitivity is unlikely to be less than 2C, say scientists
• Cyclone Pam: Untangling the complex science on tropical storms and climate change
• Scientists link Arctic warming to intense summer heatwaves in the northern hemisphere
• Atmosphere ‘has finally woken up’ as El Niño gets underway in the Pacific
• Five decisions the IPCC made today about its future
• Pachauri steps down as head of UN climate Panel
• Surface warming ‘hiatus’ could stick around another five years, say scientists
• New satellite reveals places on Earth most at risk from ocean acidification
• Scientists: Climate change is attracting more disease-carrying insects to the UK, but don’t panic
• Scientists dismiss claims of “fiddling” global temperature data
• Pachauri: IPCC should take official role in assessing country pledges to curb climate change
• Satellite measurements of the troposphere confirm warming trend, data shows
• Beneath the waves: How the deep oceans have continued to warm over the past decade
• UN World Meteorological Organisation ranks 2014 as hottest year on record
• Met Office puts high odds on the next few years being warmer than 2014
• Claims that climate models overestimate warming are “unfounded”, study shows
• Met Office confirms 2014 among hottest years on record
• Factcheck: Scientists hit back at claims global warming projections are “greatly exaggerated”
• Scientists confirm 2014 as the hottest year on record
• Explainer: How do scientists measure global temperature?
• Trade wind “tug of war” to blame as scientists lower odds of an El Niño
• Meeting two degree climate target means 80 per cent of world’s coal is “unburnable”, study says
• Five bits of research that shaped climate science in 2014
• First look at new NASA satellite map reveals global carbon dioxide hotspots
• Why aren’t climate models better at predicting Arctic sea ice loss?
• New satellite maps reveal hidden intricacies of Greenland ice loss and sea level rise
• What happens if we overshoot the two degree target for limiting global warming?
• Scientists dig deep into earth’s history for clues to El Niño past, present and future
• Tackle air pollution to kickstart climate action, says new study
• How an IPCC graph linked fossil fuel use to climate change, and why it led to a heated debate
• The IPCC synthesis report: A summary for everyone
• Briefing: What’s new and interesting in the IPCC synthesis report
• New study maps countries most at risk from El Niño flooding
• Scientists stay poised for imminent arrival of El Niño
• Scientists weigh in on 2C target for curbing global warming
• Get ready for hotter summers and more flooding in the UK, say scientists
• Your questions on climate sensitivity answered
• Why isn’t the Arctic sea ice free already?
• Climate snails study shows peer review continues to function as expected
• Scientists: Why clinging to a 2C limit may harm meaningful climate action
• Factcheck: Telegraph wrongly accuses BBC of “blatantly untrue” climate reporting
• In brief: How much do volcanoes influence the climate?
• Pacific watch: Is El Niño finding its second wind?
• Surface warming hiatus could stick around for another decade, say scientists
• Factcheck: Is climate change linked to recent UK flooding?
• ‘‘Hiatus’’ in surface warming is upping the odds of UK cold winters, say scientists
• Climate scientists dub this year’s El Niño “a real enigma”
• Air pollution and climate change could mean 50 per cent more people going hungry by 2050, new study finds
• UK Parliament says IPCC report is an “unambiguous picture of a climate that is being dangerously destabilised”
• Scientists lambast The Australian for misleading article on deep ocean cooling
• Have satellites overestimated Antarctic sea ice growth?
• Slow surface warming since 1998 is “not exceptional”, say scientists
• New mega-map details all the ways climate change will affect our everyday lives
• Climate change spells bad news for reindeer, say experts
• Arctic summer sea ice is disappearing fast, but can we rescue it?
• What’’s your city doing to protect you from climate change? In six charts
• Climate scientists tell us why it’’s “utterly, utterly normal” to have a paper rejected
• Factcheck: What’’s the significance of a record high in Antarctic sea ice?
• Six things to know about Antarctic ice
• BBC upholds complaint over Today Programme Nigel Lawson interview
• IPCC authors discuss how science meets politics in the latest summary for policymakers
• Overconfident predictions risk damaging trust in climate science, prominent scientists warn
• Academics urge scientists to do more to engage the public on climate change
• Dispelling myths and silently shaping progress: What consensus means to climate scientists
• El Niño: How human history helped shape modern climate prediction