100 articles from Carbon Brief between June 2017 and November 2017
November 2017
- Shifting storms under climate change could bring wilder winters to the UK
- Analysis: Global CO2 emissions set to rise 2% in 2017 after three-year ‘plateau’
- State of the climate: 2017 shaping up to be warmest ‘non-El Niño’ year
- Guest post: How China has reduced the carbon footprint of developed countries
- Analysis: Which countries have sent the most delegates to COP23?
- Mapped: Where multilateral climate funds spend their money
- Analysis: WRI data suggests emissions have already ‘peaked’ in 49 countries
- Rapid CO2 cuts could allow some cool-water corals to adapt to global warming
October 2017
- UNEP: Six crucial actions to help close the world’s ‘emissions gap’
- Impact of climate change on health is ‘the major threat of 21st century’
- Guest post: Who will deliver the negative emissions needed to avoid 2C warming?
- Guest post: Dieter Helm’s review is not as radical as it might first appear
- Reaction: Dieter Helm’s ‘least cost’ ideas for meeting the UK’s climate targets
- Climate change threatens the survival of Madagascar’s bamboo lemurs
- Analysis: How could the Agung volcano in Bali affect global temperatures?
- Study: Ending extreme poverty and limiting warming to 2C still possible
- New York City could face damaging floods ‘every five years’ in a warmer climate
- In-depth: How will climate change affect animal sex ratios?
- Renewables will give more people access to electricity than coal, says IEA
- California’s new law aims to tackle imported emissions
- Guest Post: How IPCC graphics could be made more accessible
- In-depth: How the ‘Clean Growth Strategy’ hopes to deliver UK climate goals
- Geoengineering: Scientists in Berlin debate radical ways to reverse global warming
- The Carbon Brief Quiz 2017
- Mapped: How the US generates electricity
- Guest post: Interpreting the Paris Agreement’s 1.5C temperature limit
- Mapped: How UK foreign aid is spent on climate change
- Hyperthermals: What can they tell us about modern global warming?
- Analysis: How well have climate models projected global warming?
- IEA: Renewable electricity set to grow 40% globally by 2022
- Grass-fed beef will not help tackle climate change, report finds
- World can meet growing food demands and limit warming to 1.5C, study says
September 2017
- Analysis: What does revised methane data mean for the Paris Agreement?
- Tropical forests are ‘no longer carbon sinks’ because of human activity
- Guest post: Authors respond to misinterpretations of their 1.5C carbon budget paper
- Report lays out vision for ‘ambitious’ UK energy efficiency plan
- German election 2017: Where the parties stand on energy and climate change
- Factcheck: Climate models have not ‘exaggerated’ global warming
- Arctic sea ice summer minimum in 2017 is eighth lowest on record
- Guest post: Why the 1.5C warming limit is not yet a geophysical impossibility
- Guest post: What will be in the next IPCC climate change assessment
- Limiting global warming to 1.5C could save two-thirds of Asia’s glacier ice
- Media reaction: Hurricane Irma and climate change
- Coffee faces dual threat of farmland loss and bee decline in a warmer climate
- Analysis: UK auction reveals offshore wind cheaper than new gas
- Guest Post: Deploying the science of extreme weather attribution in the courts
- Climate change could drive a third of parasites to extinction by 2070
- Energy efficiency policies ‘could save UK homes £270’, report finds
- Guest post: How the Greenland ice sheet fared in 2017
August 2017
- Mapeo: Como el cambio climático afecta eventos meteorológicos extremos alrededor del mundo
- Climate change ‘could double’ the number of droughts in Jordan by 2100
- Media reaction: Hurricane Harvey and climate change
- Climate change could flip European peak power demand to summer, study says
- Guest Post: Why solar keeps being underestimated
- World’s soils have lost 133bn tonnes of carbon since the dawn of agriculture
- Factcheck: Misleading headlines about electric car charging while boiling the kettle
- Climate change could tarnish the flavour of cava, study suggests
- Climate change is shifting Kodiak bear feeding habits, study says
- Explainer: Why the sun is not responsible for recent climate change
- Q&A: The return of UK fracking and what it could mean for the climate
- Analysis: Why US carbon emissions have fallen 14% since 2005
- Global warming could cause yield of sorghum crops to drop ‘substantially’
- Climate change is already shifting the timing of European floods, study says
- Factcheck: Lord Lawson’s inaccurate claims about climate change on BBC Radio 4
- Ecosystems facing ‘double whammy’ due to increasing impacts of drought
- In-depth: The challenges facing the Dieter Helm ‘energy cost’ review
- Migrating birds can’t keep up with an earlier spring in a changing climate
- Factcheck: British Gas and Daily Telegraph make confusing claims over ‘green taxes’
- Guest post: Improving Africa’s soils to cut emissions and boost food security
July 2017
- Six charts show UK’s progress on low-carbon energy slowing down
- Explainer: California’s new ‘cap-and-trade’ scheme to cut emissions
- Analysis: Switch to electric vehicles would add just 10% to UK power demand
- Q&A: How viable are floating offshore windfarms?
- In-depth: How a smart flexible grid could save the UK £40bn
- ‘Extreme’ El Niños to double in frequency under 1.5C of warming, study says
- State of the climate: Warm temperatures and low sea ice mark first half of 2017
- Explainer: How data adjustments affect global temperature records
- In-depth: The challenge of using biofuels to cut transport emissions
- Factcheck: How much power will UK electric vehicles need?
- Rising seas threaten scores of species on Pacific islands with extinction
- Seven charts show why the IEA thinks coal investment has already peaked
- Warm spells in Arctic stunt crop yields across US, study suggests
- Mapped: The world’s largest CO2 importers and exporters
- The Carbon Brief Interview: Amory Lovins
June 2017
- Major correction to satellite data shows 140% faster warming since 1998
- Guest post: Half a degree could make a world of difference
- CCC: A plan to fill the UK’s climate policy gap is ‘urgently’ needed
- Mission 2020: A new global strategy to ‘rapidly’ reduce carbon emissions
- Giant hailstones to increasingly strike North America under climate change
- The Swiss company hoping to capture 1% of global CO2 emissions by 2025
- Study: Why troposphere warming differs between models and satellite data
- Guest post: How new EU rules could ‘hide’ climate impact of harvesting forests
- Billions to face ‘deadly threshold’ of heat extremes by 2100, finds study
- Factcheck: Grenfell Tower fire and the Daily Mail’s ‘green targets’ claim
- UK wind power can help meet peak winter demand, study says
- Analysis: US states and cities could meet Paris climate goals without Trump
- In-depth: New BP data shows emissions flat in 2016 with record rise in renewables
- Explainer: The challenge of defining fossil fuel subsidies
- Analysis: Meeting Paris pledges would prevent at least 1C of global warming
- IEA: World can reach ‘net zero’ emissions by 2060 to meet Paris climate goals