100 articles from Carbon Brief between March 2015 and June 2015

June 2015

• 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
• Flood damages in Europe to increase 200% by the end of the century, scientists warn
• Britain’s fish ‘n’ chip favourites could dwindle as North Sea warms
• Guest post: What the latest science says about thawing permafrost
• Climate showdown: Has the US, UK or Germany done more to cut emissions?
• Five ways the UK’s electricity grid is changing
• Forest degradation as bad for climate as deforestation, says report
• The Carbon Brief interview: Jean-Pascal van Ypersele
• Western Canada’s glaciers could shrink by as much as 95% by 2100, study finds
• Ambiguous Russian climate pledge mystifies many
• Climate sensitivity is unlikely to be less than 2C, say scientists

March 2015

• US climate pledge promises to push for maximum ambition
• Explainer: What are ‘Intended Nationally Determined Contributions’?
• Natural variability could slow the pace of Arctic summer sea ice loss, study says
• The Carbon Brief Interview: Tim Yeo
• Carbon capture and storage: Can the UK hit climate goals without killing off heavy industry?
• Antarctic ice shelf thinning is accelerating, reveals new study
• Large fall in UK emissions in 2014, official figures confirm
• Are National Trust libraries at risk from climate change?
• Electric vehicle batteries ‘already cheaper than 2020 projections’
• Cost of carbon should be 200% higher today, say economists
• Arctic sea ice hits lowest winter peak on record
• Are the UK’s emissions really falling or has it outsourced them to China?
• Amazon rainforest is taking up a third less carbon than a decade ago