100 articles from Carbon Brief between May 2016 and October 2016

October 2016

• Analysis: The impact of La Niña on UK wind power
• Video: Scientists on priorities for IPCC’s special report on 1.5C
• Review: 7 key scenes in Leonardo DiCaprio’s climate film Before the Flood
• Shifting tropical cyclones increases threat to sinking Mekong delta
• Renewables forecast contradicts government claim on controlling costs
• The Carbon Brief Quiz 2016
• ‘Trees on steroids’: Issam Dairanieh on turning CO2 into products
• CCC: UK must act now to secure zero-carbon heat by 2050
• CCC: UK ‘needs negative emissions’ to comply with Paris climate deal
• Hurricane Sandy-sized floods up to 17 times more likely by 2100
• Explainer: Why a UN climate deal on HFCs matters
• Explainer: Paris Agreement on climate change to ‘enter into force’
• Climate change could push risk of ‘megadrought’ to 99% in American southwest
• Anthropocene: The journey to a new geological epoch
• Analysis: UK solar beats coal over half a year

September 2016

• Factcheck: The carbon floor price and household energy bills
• Guest post: What technologies are available for meeting the 1.5C goal?
• In-depth: How can fossil fuel supplies be constrained?
• Mapped: The countries with the highest carbon price
• Explainer: How aviation could, finally, agree a climate deal
• Highlights: Day two at the 1.5C conference on climate change in Oxford
• Highlights: Day one at the 1.5C conference on climate change in Oxford
• Video: Laurence Tubiana on the 1.5C questions scientists need to answer
• Zeitleiste: Die Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft der deutschen Energiewende
• Timeline: The past, present and future of Germany’s Energiewende
• Wie Deutschland seinen Strom erzeugt
• Mapped: How Germany generates its electricity
• Scientists: How the new focus on 1.5C is reshaping climate research
• Media reaction: UK government approves Hinkley C nuclear power plant
• Arctic sea ice summer minimum in 2016 joint-second lowest on record
• Guest post: How data is key to conserving wildlife in a changing climate
• Seven charts show new renewables outpacing rising demand for first time
• Carbon capture and storage could be cheaper than nuclear, says report
• In-depth: Climate change confusion over government’s flooding review
• UK set to miss renewable energy targets, warn MPs
• Analysis: Jeremy Corbyn promises 65% share of renewables by 2030
• Climate change doubled the chances of Louisiana heavy rains, scientists warn
• Guest post: How the Greenland ice sheet fared in 2016
• Guest post: What will sea ice loss mean for Arctic shipping?
• Where do the 10 UN secretary general candidates stand on climate change?

August 2016

• Nine charts to show why the G20 matters for energy and climate
• Guest post: How predictable is the first ice-free Arctic summer?
• Scientists clarify starting point for human-caused climate change
• Seals help scientists get to the bottom of Antarctic changes
• Seven charts showing how countries’ carbon footprints compare
• Rising seas could ease coral bleaching but will be ‘too little too late’
• IPCC special report to scrutinise ‘feasibility’ of 1.5C climate goal
• Anxiety about electric cars misplaced, says study
• Guest post: Piecing together the Arctic’s sea ice history back to 1850
• Warming Atlantic Ocean leads to rise in marine bacteria
• Analysis: Aviation could consume a quarter of 1.5C carbon budget by 2050
• Scientists confirm multiple climate records broken in 2015
• Guest post: An Antarctic voyage in search of blue carbon

July 2016

• Six charts show UK progress towards low-carbon energy
• Q&A: The Hinkley C new nuclear plant
• US election tracker 2016: Democrats and Republicans on energy and climate
• Climate-related disasters raise conflict risk, study says
• Nick Hurd confirmed as climate minister in new UK department
• Natural forces overpowering Antarctic Peninsula warming
• Analysis: How UK leaving the EU would increase climate targets for others
• Climate change could curb malaria risk in West Africa by end of century
• Warmer oceans driving Antarctic Peninsula glacier melt
• Reshuffle: DECC folded into new department headed by Greg Clark
• The Carbon Brief Interview: Mark Watts
• Revealed: The time when Theresa May spoke out on climate change
• UK faces urgent climate change risks, says CCC
• Shifting global cloud patterns could amplify warming, study says
• The Carbon Brief Interview: Jim Skea
• Study links heatwave deaths in London and Paris to climate change
• CCC: Fracking would breach UK climate goals without tougher conditions
• The Carbon Brief Interview: Averil Macdonald
• National Grid sees major boost for solar, electric vehicles and batteries
• Pacific Ocean behind recent Antarctic sea ice growth, study says

June 2016

• UK aims for 57% carbon cut but lacks policies to get there
• Guest post: Why Paris climate pledges need to overdeliver to keep warming to 2C
• Brexit: 94 unanswered questions for climate and energy policy
• Scientists find common ground over climate sensitivity
• Sahel rainfall recovery linked to warming Mediterranean, study says
• Explainer: When will the European Union ratify the Paris Agreement?
• Guest post: Three ways to boost crop resilience to climate change
• Aerosol emissions key to the surface warming ‘slowdown’, study says
• Discovery exposes fragility of Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf
• Alpine soils storing up to a third less carbon as summers warm
• Low oil prices could ‘hamper’ action on climate change, say scientists
• Paris deluge made up to 90% more likely by climate change, scientists say
• BP: Global coal use fell by largest recorded margin in 2015
• The albatross, El Niño and climate change: a tale of mixed fortunes
• Analysis: Solar beats coal over a whole month in UK for first time
• UK electricity is secure without coal, says Conservative thinktank
• Factcheck: Which parts of the UK are windy enough for windfarms?
• Guest post: Attributing changes in regional rainfall to human activity
• IEA: There are now more than one million electric cars on the world’s roads

May 2016

• Analysis: Negative emissions tested at world’s first major BECCS facility
• Ocean conveyor key to sluggish Antarctic warming, study says
• Chatham House: Brexit could harm UK climate and energy policy
• Scientists: 2016 likely to be hottest year on record despite looming La Niña
• UK can decarbonise without harming nature, says RSPB
• Arctic could warm by 17C if all known fossil fuels are burned, study finds
• Study: Most fossil fuels unburnable without carbon capture
• Analysis: Only five years left before 1.5C carbon budget is blown