100 articles from Carbon Brief between May 2014 and July 2014

July 2014

• UK and Germany top ‘dirty 30’ league of coal plants
• Have satellites overestimated Antarctic sea ice growth?
• Government decides not to amend UK’’s fourth carbon budget
• Slow surface warming since 1998 is “not exceptional”, say scientists
• UK’’s energy efficiency ranking falls due to government policy rollbacks
• A detailed look at why the future of UK energy is so hard to predict
• Typhoon Haiyan, record-breaking CO2 levels, rising seas and more: five measures of the state of the climate in 2013
• Factcheck: Do climate worriers use more electricity?
• New mega-map details all the ways climate change will affect our everyday lives
• Factcheck: How often do wind turbines catch fire? And does it matter?
• Climate change spells bad news for reindeer, say experts
• The future of coal in China, India, Australia, the US, EU, and UK
• Return to the home of the blizzard: Chris Turney reflects on his recent scientific mission to Antarctica
• Mind the gap: the holes in UK climate policy
• Arctic summer sea ice is disappearing fast, but can we rescue it?
• Australian carbon tax repeal fails after surprise vote
• What’’s your city doing to protect you from climate change? In six charts
• Who are you calling a skeptic? New survey identifies diverse views on climate change among US Republicans
• Climate scientists tell us why it’’s “utterly, utterly normal” to have a paper rejected
• Future flood risk: the CCC says under-investment is storing up trouble
• Funding boost nudges UK carbon capture and storage industry forwards
• What the fossil fuel industry thinks of the ‘carbon bubble’
• Gatwick, Dawlish and the consequences of failing to adapt to climate change
• The verdict on smart meter privacy, security and health concerns as UK smart meter rollout begins
• Factcheck: What’’s the significance of a record high in Antarctic sea ice?
• Six things to know about Antarctic ice
• Factcheck: Has the US shale gas revolution saved more carbon than the entire solar and wind industry?
• BBC upholds complaint over Today Programme Nigel Lawson interview
• Updated: The science of fracking and earthquakes
• IPCC authors discuss how science meets politics in the latest summary for policymakers
• Explained: Fugitive methane emissions from natural gas production
• Overconfident predictions risk damaging trust in climate science, prominent scientists warn
• A major strategic threat: how the Ministry of Defence sees climate change
• Record renewable energy consumption dampens impact of cold weather on UK’’s annual emissions
• Government defends its climate science communication, but sets out a new strategy to improve it anyway

June 2014

• Scotland doesn’t have much shale gas, new estimates indicate
• Why has the government been criticised for paying ‘too much’ for low carbon energy?
• Southern Europe stands to lose the most from climate change
• What price the Great Barrier Reef? Shadow environment minister says nature should make it onto balance sheets
• What EU policy responses to the Ukraine crisis reveal about energy security priorities
• Supreme Court backs Obama’’s plan to sidestep Congress and regulate carbon emissions
• Academics urge scientists to do more to engage the public on climate change
• Risking it all: Report highlights how climate change threatens US business
• Factchecking claims the IPCC says there will be no dangerous global warming this century
• Dispelling myths and silently shaping progress: What consensus means to climate scientists
• Updated: The UK, Europe, and an energy efficiency revolution
• El Niño: How human history helped shape modern climate prediction
• New statistics show world’’s tentative steps towards low carbon energy
• The UK and China release a ‘call to action’ on climate. What does it mean?
• Lord Stern says economic models of climate change need better climate science
• Manufacturing uncertainty: how US newspapers have dialled up the language of doubt on climate change
• A detailed look at why UK homes are using less energy
• Rain-obsessed: Brits concerned about climate change likely to think weather has got worse
• Not so Happy Feet: Penguins go from climate winners to climate losers
• Competition and interconnection – how and where should we spend green energy subsidies?
• The Bonn UN climate talks: What’s at stake and what’s next?
• Why National Grid will pay companies to switch off
• Carry on coal? The cost of keeping the UK’s dirty power stations alive
• Can the world curb global warming and save $740 billion? Only if the alternative becomes more costly
• The EU energy security strategy in 5 graphs
• Carbon Briefing: What’s going on with China’s climate plans?
• Why dread, not dollar losses, decrees how we react to climate risks
• Intensity, pragmatism & flexibility: Three key components of Obama’’s carbon pollution plan
• Could rebranding environmentalism help tackle climate change?
• The IEA weighs in on stranded assets – not just a green conspiracy?
• IEA: The marginal cost of two degrees
• Q&A: Obama’s plan to cut coal and gas emissions
• Analysis: Newspapers less interested in climate impacts of shale oil than gas
• New Met Office forecast predicts heavier summer downpours with climate change

May 2014

• Obama’’s new coal rule: Bold climate leadership, a lawsuit waiting to happen, or both?
• How President Obama will tackle US coal emissions
• The state of carbon pricing: Around the world in 46 carbon markets
• Will the surge in support for UKIP and other eurosceptics damage EU climate policy?
• Making waves: New science points to storminess as reason for Antarctic sea ice growth
• Lord Deben and the Committee on Climate Change agree on onshore wind’s potential
• The EU energy security strategy is now ‘integral’ to EU climate plans
• Does evidence suggest the words “global warming” make people care more about “climate change”?
• UK shale oil – infographic
• Enabling the messenger: How can the IPCC get its message across to the public?
• Carbon Briefing: UK shale oil – what, where, and how much
• The EU is working on an energy security strategy. What is it all about?
• What Google searches can (and can’’t) reveal about climate skepticism
• Mail Online overplays new study with claims melting glaciers could partly ‘cancel out global warming
• It’’s a bit like a tree: How comparing geoengineering to the natural world bolsters support
• What house prices say about concern for future climate change
• Get on with carbon capture and storage, climate change committee MPs say
• Ice picks: Five pieces of ice news revealing earth’’s ice cover is in serious decline
• How much are we willing to adapt to climate change, and where are the limits?
• Shell says its assets won’t get stranded by a carbon bubble. With climate change on the international agenda, is it right?
• BBC most likely to portray IPCC science as ‘contested’: how old and new media covered the IPCC
• Factcheck: Why the UK will not run out of oil, coal or gas in five years
• Top scientific journal rejects Times front-page article claims
• Factcheck: Three things The Guardian’’s Simon Jenkins gets wrong about coal’’s supremacy, and one he gets right
• New study links El Niño to poor crop harvests worldwide
• Carbon Briefing: How to vote for stronger (or weaker) EU climate policy in the European Elections
• Where would Lord Howell frack?
• Some key questions answered on the news West Antarctic glaciers are collapsing
• Countdown to the UK’’s energy future: a guide to today’’s talks on the EU 2030 package
• Preserving corals could save billions in coastal defences – new study
• Scientists say West Antarctic ice sheet “collapse is under way” as temperatures rise