100 articles from Carbon Brief between February 2014 and May 2014
May 2014
- Why paying the wind not to blow is a necessary evil
- IEA: Radical change of course required on road to low carbon economy
- Hotter and wetter extremes: How scientists know our weather’s getting more erratic as climate change bites
- Climate games: How understanding the rules of negotiation is key to delivering a global deal
- And it’s goodbye to all that: Robin’s review of the climate and energy world since 2010
- Lords’ clean and green shale gas comes with caveats
- Does the UK already have enough green energy?
- How to build a climate resilient United States
- Adapting to climate change calls for a local approach, new research shows
- Have the floods finally got Britain worried about climate change?
- Analysis: Newspaper coverage of climate change drops despite release of major UN reports
- Seeing the wood for the trees: Scientists find a better way to measure carbon locked up in forests
- 75 per cent of Americans want to see climate change taught in schools, and four more graphs
- High renewables ambition, but fossil fuels still dominate: UK and Germany electricity systems compared
April 2014
- Climate change is making extremely wet winters in the UK 25 per cent more likely, study concludes
- Sweltering in the city: Surviving climate change in our great urban metropolises
- Polling shows energy supply and climate change have rocketed up people’s list of concerns. Why?
- Oyster reefs will keep their end up when sea levels rise
- We’re not ready for the changes we’re causing in the Arctic, scientist says
- Failure to tackle emissions from power sector could undermine environmental case for HS2
- How to prosper in an uncertain world? Businesses wake up to climate risk
- Cutting emissions without onshore wind: it may be possible, but it would cost us
- Q & A: What’s El Niño – and why does it matter that scientists say one is on the way?
- Carbon Briefing: how energy demand could drink up global water resources
- Study: plumes of methane released into the atmosphere by a few super-emitting shale gas wells
- IPCC review of farming and forests leaves key questions about effect on climate change “unresolved”
- Climate change is a political animal
- Tackling global warming could slow global growth – by 0.06 per cent, IPCC predicts
- Degrees of change: the IPCC’s projections for future temperature rise
- From RCP to WG3: A climate change acronym cheat sheet
- Excitement over clean underground coal gasification masks technical reality
- Does the IPCC endorse fracking?
- Climate fixes and Plan Bs: The IPCC’s guide to staying below two degrees of global warming
- Media reaction: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s big climate mitigation report
- Not just another climate report: main messages from the UN report on tackling emissions
- How to read the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changes reports
- What’s mitigation? A short and straightforward summary of the IPCC’s latest report
- A big report on how to tackle climate change will be published this weekend: How is it being reported?
- Germany’s Energiewende reforms are a step towards giving renewables back to corporations
- Regional changes, global effects: an interview with IPCC Arctic specialist Jan-Gunnar Winther
- It’s a bit of a downer: can climate change be a good news story?
- Misleading the reader: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change responds to Mail on Sunday claims
- IPCC report: Climate change and the things people care about
- The IPCC’s risky talk on climate change
- IPCC says adapt and mitigate to tackle climate risks
- Analysis: How UK newspapers covered the IPCC’s report on the impacts of climate change
- Risk, resilience and honeybees: Scientists’ views on the new IPCC report
- How much flooding is in the UK’s future? A look at the IPCC report
- BBC climate coverage singled out for criticism by cross-party parliamentary committee
- Calculating damages: How much will climate change cost?
- Trees at risk, poverty pockets and the risk of tipping: five hidden stories about the impacts of climate change
- Climate change poses risks for human and natural systems: Key quotes from the IPCC’s Working Group 2 report
March 2014
- The IPCC’s report on the impacts of climate change: a summary for everyone
- Lunchtime roundup: UK media coverage of the IPCCs Working Group 2 report
- Big impacts: The main messages from today’s big UN climate report
- The impacts of climate change, in three charts: A visual summary of the IPCC’s Working Group 2 report
- Arctic sea ice melt: a story of winners and losers, IPCC scientist says
- Stormy weather leads to record levels of renewable electricity
- Carbon briefing: changing views on biofuels reflected in forthcoming climate report
- A big UN report on climate change impacts is coming: how is it being reported?
- Scientists respond to misleading Times article about climate changes impact on crop yields
- Budget 2014: Five key climate and energy numbers
- Heatproofing London: Climate change raises city heat death risk, but adaptation can cut the impact
- Budget 2014: Key climate and energy announcements
- Budget 2014: Why freezing the carbon price floor is a symbolic blow to UK’s climate commitment
- The carbon price floor: disliked, divisive and about to be frozen
- From London to Los Angeles: Tailoring climate policy to meet cities needs
- UK public believes in benefits of climate action: poll
- Telegraph uses Sky-high estimate for cost of energy infrastructure
- Thames Barrier’s extraordinary year prompts government to reconsider long term flood plans
- Mail’s dodgy maths bumps up the cost of wind
- Curbing enthusiasm and anticipating global sideswipes: Predicting the future cost of electricity
- Carbon Brief’s pre-election climate policy tracker
- How we track UK newspaper coverage of climate change
- Analysis: UK newspaper coverage of climate change hits 12 month high
- Public backs green growth despite lack of concern about climate change
- Government 77 years behind on plans to cut emissions through solid wall insulation
- Scientists challenge climate skeptic claims that UN panel overestimates warming
- Cut the ‘weirdo words’ and put a human face on climate change, says UN chief
- New opportunities come with big risks as climate change opens up the Arctic
- Expert views: Ukraine, Russia and Europe’s energy security
- UK isn’t alone in tackling carbon emissions
February 2014
- Why experts say UK carbon capture and storage must work (this time)
- Big picture science: New report focuses on climate science certainty
- UK electricity mix in 2013: less gas, still lots of coal, but winds on the up
- Factcheck: how much is the government really spending on flood defences?
- Special reflection: How scientists, media and the public see the surface warming pause
- Conservatives call for a new environmentalism to resolve party divisions over climate change
- Climate engineering may do more harm than good, according to new research
- Risk and uncertainty: Calculating the Thames Barriers future
- How accurate are the Met Office’s predictions? A closer look at this winters forecast
- What climate change policy could mean for Scottish independence and the future of North Sea oil
- Issues of resilience, interdependence and growth affect global climate change risk
- National security and mitigation versus adaptation: Have the floods changed the climate policy debate?
- Energy companies split over reforms to support renewable energy generation
- Too much water, or not enough: why climate change could threaten our power supplies
- Mail on Sunday falsely claims Met Office scientists disagree on climate change link to recent UK weather
- Analysis: UK newspapers are talking more about climate change and flooding
- There’s little evidence that climate migration will lead to global conflict
- Floods have ended political debate about climate change impacts, argues former energy minister