100 articles from Carbon Brief between March 2017 and September 2017

September 2017

• 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
• Video: Tropics to see ‘unprecedented’ climates under future warming
• Global reaction: Trump pulls US out of Paris Agreement on climate change
• Guest post: Is the collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet inevitable?

May 2017

• Mapped: How ‘embodied’ footprints compare across Europe
• Factcheck: Whale strandings and offshore windfarms
• Half the global population could face ‘unknown’ climates by mid-century
• Bonn climate talks: key outcomes from the May 2017 UN climate conference
• Antarctica’s high elevation is slowing rate of warming, says study
• Election 2017: What the manifestos say on energy and climate change
• Limiting warming to 1.5C has clear benefits for Australia, study says
• Mapped: Climate change laws around the world
• Brexit negotiations should treat energy as ‘special case’, says report
• Explainer: Dealing with the ‘loss and damage’ caused by climate change
• Pacific Ocean shift could see 1.5C breached within a decade
• Guest post: Can the US legally weaken its Paris Agreement climate pledge?
• US tells China it has ‘no plan yet’ to meet its 2020 climate target
• The 1981 TV documentary that warned about global warming

April 2017

• India’s planned coal plants could ‘single-handedly jeopardise’ 1.5C target
• Cut fossil fuel use ‘dramatically’ to meet climate goals, says Shell-backed report
• UK launches ‘world first’ research programme into negative emissions
• The Carbon Brief Interview: Michael Gerrard
• El Niño shifts cholera burden onto East Africa
• Warming limit of 1.5C would ‘save’ huge expanses of permafrost, study says
• The Carbon Brief Interview: Brian Deese
• Renewables growth breaks records again despite fall in investment
• Guest post: Air passengers face a bumpier ride due to climate change
• Renewable electricity in Africa could outstrip demand in 2030, study says
• Analysis: Just four years left of the 1.5C carbon budget
• Mapped: Where £4.4bn is being spent on flood protection in England
• Analysis: North Sea industry cost UK taxpayers £396m in 2016

March 2017

• Media reaction: Donald Trump’s climate and energy executive order
• Video: Climate scientists discuss record lows in Arctic and Antarctic sea ice
• Guest post: Adapting to climate change through ‘managed retreat’
• The Carbon Brief Interview: Benjamin Sporton
• Sea ice falls to record lows in both the Arctic and Antarctic