100 articles from Carbon Brief between February 2016 and July 2016

July 2016

• 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
• The Carbon Brief Interview: Debra Roberts
• Guest Post: What does the Paris Agreement mean for the oceans?
• Video: Experts on the challenges of climate change adaptation
• Guest post: How to better align climate goals with sustainable development
• Shell outlines ‘below 2C’ climate change scenario
• Guest post: How the Pacific Ocean alters the pace of Arctic warming
• Mapped: The global coal trade
• Guest post: How to improve clarity in greenhouse gas emissions targets

April 2016

• Climate change to widen range of disease-carrying mosquitoes, says study
• Editorials: Where UK newspapers stand on climate change and energy
• Mapped: The climate change conversation on Twitter
• Rising CO2 has ‘greened’ world’s plants and trees
• Guest post: Understanding CO2 fertilisation and climate change
• Video: Maritime experts on the need to reduce shipping emissions
• Arctic sea ice could ‘shrink to record low’ this summer, say scientists
• Scientists compare climate change impacts at 1.5C and 2C
• UK taxpayers handed Shell $123m in 2015
• Feeding the world: Can we preserve forests, go organic and eat meat?
• Mapped: How China dominates the global wind energy market
• Explainer: The adoption, signing and ratification of the UN climate deal
• Analysis: Is the UK relying on ‘negative emissions’ to meet its climate targets?
• The IPCC’s priorities for the next six years: 1.5C, oceans, cities and food security
• Guest post: Do we need BECCS to avoid dangerous climate change?
• Analysis: UK solar generation tops coal for the first time
• Timeline: How BECCS became climate change’s ‘saviour’ technology
• In-depth: Experts assess the feasibility of ‘negative emissions’
• ‘Disenfranchised’ small islands to become increasingly arid
• Explainer: 10 ways ‘negative emissions’ could slow climate change
• Analysis: the ‘highly unusual’ behaviour of Arctic sea ice in 2016
• Factcheck: Are climate models ‘wrong’ on rainfall extremes?
• The 35 countries cutting the link between economic growth and emissions
• Guest post: Understanding the government’s capacity market
• Explainer: Is climate change good news for the UK wine industry?

March 2016

• UK emissions lowest since the 1920s as renewables overtake coal
• New coal plants rise in 2015 despite falling consumption
• The Carbon Brief Interview: Tom Greatrex
• Seven charts show how renewable investment broke records in 2015
• Guest post: Failure to tackle food demand could make 1.5C limit unachievable
• England’s growing season now almost a month longer, says Met Office
• Climate change brings early grape harvests for French wine
• China is responsible for 10% of human influence on climate change, study says
• Shrinking of forest carbon sink under climate change may be ‘less than anticipated’
• Budget 2016: key climate and energy announcements
• Sea level rise could put 13m Americans at risk of flooding by 2100
• Cuts in Europe’s air pollution have boosted Arctic warming by 0.5C
• In-depth: the scientific challenge of extreme weather attribution
• Analysis: The legacy of the Fukushima nuclear disaster
• Mapped: The world’s nuclear power plants
• Climate change threatens staple crops in Africa, study says
• UK needs a ‘smart power revolution’, says Infrastructure Commission
• Carbon Briefly: Peter Stott
• Investor confidence in UK energy policy has ‘dipped’, warn MPs
• Mapped: How climate change will slow progress towards curbing malnutrition

February 2016

• Huge divide in spending on climate change adaptation across world’s megacities
• Analysis: Decline in China’s coal consumption accelerates
• Analysis: UK emissions fall again after record drop in coal use in 2015
• Ocean acidification: Decline of Great Barrier Reef likely to be worse than feared
• UK needs an ‘Energiewende’, says energy industry chief
• Cutting emissions could prevent nearly 300,000 US air pollution deaths
• EU referendum opinion tracker: energy and climate change
• Interactive: How satellites are used to monitor climate change
• Mapped: The sensitivity of the world’s ecosystems to climate
• Interactive: How the global oil trade is changing
• Explainer: Europe’s struggle to switch on low-carbon heating
• Heathrow 13: Prof Alice Bows-Larkin’s expert evidence on aviation and climate change
• How death of US Supreme Court judge might affect Clean Power Plan