100 articles from Carbon Brief between March 2014 and June 2014

June 2014

• 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
• 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 Change’s 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 IPCC’s 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 change’s 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