100 articles from Carbon Brief between April 2015 and July 2015

July 2015

• Met Office: Wind data dispels doubt about cause of Heathrow high temperatures
• Climate change is biggest cause of stress on world’s oceans
• Analysis: How much does the UK spend abroad on ‘climate finance’?
• Global risk of wildfires on the rise as the climate warms, study says
• Q&A: Has the UK blown its green power budget?
• The Carbon Brief Interview: Prof Chris Field
• Scientists: 2015 is a critical year for ‘bold action’ on climate change
• A Carbon Brief guide to the Our Common Future conference in Paris – Final day
• How volcanic eruptions changed climate and human history
• Budget 2015: Key climate and energy announcements
• Analysis: The most ‘cited’ climate change papers
• Prof John Mitchell: How a 1967 study greatly influenced climate change science
• The Carbon Brief Interview: Syukuro Manabe
• Reports show how UK and the world can achieve ‘deep decarbonisation’
• Chance of a very cold UK winter falls to less than 1% by 2100, new study suggests
• The most influential climate change papers of all time
• The Carbon Brief Interview: Jennifer Morgan
• German coal compromise leaves doubts over climate goal
• Raise carbon price to address aviation emissions, says Airports Commission
• Climate pledge puts China on course to peak emissions as early as 2027

June 2015

• Explainer: Aviation’s battle to limit rising emissions
• Government can’t take credit for steep 2014 emissions cuts, says Committee on Climate Change
• The Carbon Brief Interview: Janos Pasztor
• Updated: Two plans to begin first fracking operations in UK for four years rejected
• UK meets interim renewable energy target, says DECC report
• Solar minimum could bring cold winters to Europe and US, but would not hold off climate change
• Tackling climate change will reap benefits for human health
• Climate change attribution studies are asking the wrong questions, study says
• The Atlantic ‘conveyor belt’ and climate: 10 years of the RAPID project
• In-depth: the science behind the papal encyclical
• The Carbon Brief Interviews
• Explainer: Will rising temperatures mean more lives are saved than lost?
• Onshore wind subsidies: What we know
• The story of the papal encyclical, as told by the media
• Papal Encyclical: key statements on climate, energy and the environment
• IEA: China has greatest potential to raise climate ambition
• The Carbon Brief Interview: Dr Fatih Birol
• In-depth: Is the 1.5C global warming goal politically possible?
• In depth: Trust high but progress slow at UN climate talks in Bonn
• Oxygen is an overlooked factor in past climate, study suggests
• The Carbon Brief Interview: Christiana Figueres
• Climate change could cut growing days of plants and crops by 11%
• 10 charts showing why carbon emissions stalled last year
• Irreversible loss of world’s ice cover should spur leaders into action, say scientists
• G7 leaders target zero-carbon economy
• Coal in the G7: Who’s burning what?
• No ‘slowdown’ in global surface temperatures after all, study finds
• Analysis: DECC budget details show limited scope for cuts
• Factcheck: Is climate change ‘helping Africa’?
• Analysis: Climate change ‘Apollo Programme’ raises both hope and questions
• Expert views: Countries meet in Bonn to restart negotiations on UN climate deal
• Climate change risks biggest change to marine species in three million years

May 2015

• Warming oceans could mean typhoons are 14% stronger by 2100, study says
• Climate benefits of a natural gas bridge ‘unlikely to be significant’
• The Carbon Brief Interview: Thomas Stocker
• Cutting soot and methane distracts from 2C goal, says Oxford scientist
• 99% of Mount Everest’ glaciers could be gone by 2100
• Carbon pricing schemes climb to $50bn, despite Australian backtracking
• Climate change could bring new hay fever misery to the UK
• Analysis: Regional attitudes to climate change across the UK
• Satellites reveal rapid acceleration of Antarctic glacier ice loss
• Limiting global warming to 1.5C is still possible, say scientists
• Scientists warn against premature predictions of a “substantial” El Niño
• Mountain shape a key factor in species surviving climate change
• Mismatched graph creates confusion in Canada’s UN climate pledge
• Opposition to fracking increases again, finds Sunday Times poll
• The Carbon Brief Interview: Tony de Brum
• The Carbon Brief Interview: Prof Dame Julia Slingo OBE
• Countries fail to set shipping climate target
• Analysis: How DECC spends its annual budget
• Antarctic Larsen-C ice shelf at risk of collapse, study warns
• Updated – Election 2015: What will a Conservative majority mean for climate and energy?
• Ice sheet melt is driving acceleration in sea level rise, study suggests
• Investigation: Does the UK’s biomass burning help solve climate change?
• 19 reasons why the world is missing the 2C climate change limit
• Monthly global carbon dioxide tops 400ppm for first time
• EU strikes deal to boost emissions trading scheme
• Flawed assumptions blight Telegraph analysis of UK decarbonisation costs
• Climate change made England’s record hot year in 2014 at least 13-times more likely

April 2015

• Climate change threatens one in six species with extinction, study finds
• UK must reform climate policies to become global leader, say economists
• What the UK public thinks about climate change and energy – in seven charts
• Vatican spells out vision for zero-carbon world
• How successfully can the Arctic Council tackle climate change?
• Prof Richard Muller: Not adjusting global temperature records would be “poor science”
• Hydrofluorocarbon emissions up 54% with air conditioning on the rise
• Human activity responsible for three out of four heat extremes, study finds
• HSBC outlines four ways to divest from fossil fuels
• World’s plants and soils to switch from carbon sink to source by 2100, study shows
• 10 of the best YouTube videos on climate change
• What do volcanic eruptions mean for the climate?
• Climate adaptation could slash cost of flood damages by 96%, study shows
• Scientists set out eight essential elements for UN climate deal
• Election 2015: What the manifestos say on climate and energy
• Tiny marine plants could amplify Arctic warming by 20%, new study finds
• Is BP’s shareholder resolution really an “activist victory”?
• Expert views: What the general election means for UK climate and energy policy
• Darkening ice speeds up Greenland melt, new research suggests
• Explainer: What we know about the Pope’s encyclical
• The Carbon Brief Interview: Jeremy Oppenheim