100 articles from Carbon Brief between July 2014 and October 2014
October 2014
- Is burning wood for energy worse for the climate than coal?
- Around the world in 22 carbon capture projects
- How air pollution caused Europe’s rivers to fill
- What the UK’s capacity market could mean for the future of coal, gas and energy sector emissions
- Has DECC signed a dud deal for renewables?
- Scientists weigh in on 2C target for curbing global warming
- Conservative conference keeps quiet on climate change
- Analysis: Will Labour’s energy efficiency overhaul work?
- Low-frequency noise study did not test for hearing damage or windfarm impacts
September 2014
- How we can make good decisions about geoengineering
- Get ready for hotter summers and more flooding in the UK, say scientists
- California is in drought, but is climate change to blame?
- IEA: Four charts that show what a solar powered future looks like
- Your questions on climate sensitivity answered
- Shale gas drilling rules to be eased despite overwhelming opposition
- China tops new list of countries most at risk from coastal flooding
- UK coal power back to historic lows as electricity demand continues to fall
- Behind the scenes at Ban Ki-moon’s climate summit: The view from New York
- Summaries of country statements given at the UN secretary general’s climate summit
- All the significant announcements from the UN climate summit, and whether theyre new
- Antarctic sea-ice hits new high as scientists puzzle over the cause
- Labour’s vision for a low carbon UK
- Why isn’t the Arctic sea ice free already?
- How TV news covered the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changes three big reports
- This year’s Arctic sea ice minimum is sixth lowest on record
- How to divide up carbon budgets fairly
- Climate snails study shows peer review continues to function as expected
- Scientists: Why clinging to a 2C limit may harm meaningful climate action
- World on course to overshoot 2C target, study shows
- UK and Germany balk at coal exit plea
- US hints at vision for a new global climate deal
- How climate-ready is your house?
- An uncertain future for global farming under climate change, study shows
- Scotland decides: What independence could mean for the countrys climate and energy policies
- Why ExxonMobil is betting on a higher carbon price than Google
- The technologies that could grow the global economy and save the planet, at no extra cost
- Behind the headlines: Fracking and water contamination
- Three graphs showing why climate action is good for the economy
- 25 inspirational texts about climate change
- Factcheck: Telegraph wrongly accuses BBC of blatantly untrue climate reporting
- Asian monsoon discovery suggests rains will increase under climate change
- Are we about to pay for high-carbon power plants we dont need?
- Why we may never get a Montreal protocol for climate change
- Rising air temperatures caused Antarctic ice shelf collapse
- UN seeks billions to fill climate adaptation funding gap – but where’s it going to come from?
- Analysis: Polling finds widespread doubt amongst Conservative MPs about climate science
- Six things to know about the climate change summit happening in New York this month
- Going green is good for the economy (depending on your economic worldview)
- The UK’s plan for a new global climate deal
- If energy efficiency is so great, why aren’t we doing more of it?
- Greenhouse gas concentrations hit record high
- Scottish Independence: How would we divide up our oil, wind and gas?
- Global carbon intensity is falling – but not quickly enough to avoid worst impacts of climate change
- Why undersea fracking is unlikely to give Scotland a £600 billion windfall
- Scientists may have solved a climate change mystery using Greenland ice cores
- The fossil fuel alternative that comes from food poisoning
- Is there enough water to frack?
- Analysis: China’s big carbon market experiment
- Assessing the climate and environment impact of London’s airport plans
- Who is Donald Tusk and what does he think about climate?
- How the IPCC is sharpening its language on climate change
- Some important context on Arctic sea ice melt
August 2014
- In brief: How much do volcanoes influence the climate?
- The trouble with Europe’s ageing nuclear power plants
- Why we’re going to be breaking renewable records for the foreseeable future, and what that means
- Why fossil fuel divestment wont be easy
- Widespread methane leakage found on US Atlantic coast
- Could an independent Scotland deliver a low carbon future?
- Pacific watch: Is El Niño finding its second wind?
- Surface warming hiatus could stick around for another decade, say scientists
- Greenland and Antarctic maps reveal ‘unprecedented’ ice loss
- Is cheap coal bad news for the climate?
- Climate change a major challenge to South Asia’s economic development – report
- How a warmer Arctic could lead to colder winters in Britain
- Factcheck: Is climate change linked to recent UK flooding?
- Questions and Answers on New Zealand’s “climate change refugees”
- Why scientists need public backing to engineer the climate
- Unpacking Christopher Booker’s wind vs coal comparison
- ‘Hiatus’ in surface warming is upping the odds of UK cold winters, say scientists
- Fracking in the UK – the Carbon Brief summary
- Transition énergétique: What Frances energy law learns from Germany and the UK
- Public remains divided or undecided on fracking, government data shows
- Fracking’s impact on house prices is unclear, but people still don’t want it (or anything else) in their back yards
- Infographic: Cutting emissions to avoid the worst impacts of climate change
- In pictures: The hidden face of UK renewable electricity
- Government data hints at future challenges for curbing natural gas emissions
- Factcheck: Christopher Booker’s curiously distorted views on wind power
- Climate scientists dub this years El Niño a real enigma
- From exploding cows to climate security: Ros’s time at Carbon Brief
July 2014
- Six charts that show how challenging decarbonising the UK really is
- Three White House charts showing why the world needs to take immediate action on climate change
- Air pollution and climate change could mean 50 per cent more people going hungry by 2050, new study finds
- What does the state aid ruling on UK energy subsidies mean?
- Does British belief in climate change really go up and down? A look at 14 polls
- UK Parliament says IPCC report is an “unambiguous picture of a climate that is being dangerously destabilised”
- Scientists lambast The Australian for misleading article on deep ocean cooling
- Q & A – everything you need to know about UK fracking
- Europe’s coal plants could stay open despite air pollution rules
- Why measuring fugitive methane emissions from shale gas production matters
- Battle over EU energy efficiency targets ends in compromise 30 per cent goal