100 articles from Carbon Brief between December 2013 and March 2014
March 2014
- 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
- What climate change attribution can tell us about extreme weather – and the recent UK floods
- New research: Arctic and tar sand oil production is incompatible with limiting global warming
- Are we underestimating natural gas emissions?
- Cutting emissions could save the UK £100 billion – if others take action too
- Dredging, drainage, and Defra: A flooding glossary
- What the papers say: UK flooding crisis
- America in the Arctic: Melting ice and soft security
- Met Office report spells out climate change link to UK storms and flooding
- Analysis: How climate change features in newspaper coverage of the UK’s floods
- A rough guide to tidal lagoons
- Government plans to increase road traffic by 40 per cent could bust climate targets
- Climate policy without the greenery: Is this the new face of Conservative environmentalism?
- Polls show shale gas is more popular in theory than practice
- In brief: Why the UK’s new nuclear deal may fall foul of EU law
January 2014
- A methane mystery: Scientists probe unanswered questions about methane and climate change
- How much energy did the Young Ones use? Home energy use through the decades
- Carbon Briefing: Who killed the EU’s transport fuel standards?
- The UK was an offshore wind leader in 2013, but how long will it last?
- How the cost of energy in the UK compares to other European countries, in five graphs
- Experts unconvinced latest reforms will save the European carbon market
- Decoding Obama’s climate and energy rhetoric in 2014’s State of the Union address – in three charts
- Mail takes gloomiest view of how windfarms affect house prices
- Resources, reserves, exploration wells and onshore licences: a glossary of shale gas terms in the UK
- Why more political rifts could be good for international climate negotiations
- What the papers say: The EU’s 2030 target
- What does 2013 being the 4th hottest year on record tell us about climate change?
- Npower changes ‘misleading’ figure in energy report
- Thousands left vulnerable as flood funding shortfall has knock-on effect on flood insurance scheme
- In brief: The EU’s new 2030 climate and energy package
- Can EU member states be trusted to fulfil 2030 climate promises without a country-specific renewable energy target?
- Trust in energy companies has fallen to near-rock bottom. Why?
- Do we need new laws on shale gas?
- Could renewable energy trading solve the EU’s 2030 ambition problem?
- Government ignores own evidence to promote shale gas push
- European battle over 2030 energy system drawing to a close
- Newsnight and the Daily Mail ponder the effect of low solar activity on the climate
- Increasing transparency and protecting the poor: Making fairer climate policy
- UK tops list of world’s biggest greenhouse gas emitters
- New studies explore conscious and unconscious links between weather and climate change attitudes
- No shortage of energy as emissions rise: BP
- Behind 2013’s energy bill headlines, in five charts
- UK leads the charge against European Union shale gas regulation
- New fracking incentives may not be enough to win communities’ support
- Cameron “gets the balance about right” on climate change and extreme weather
- European Commission president could sacrifice renewable energy target for personal legacy
- Public support for gas power rises as concern about climate change dips
- The British don’t see cold weather as evidence against climate change, according to new polling
- Will climate change mean more storms and floods for Britain?
- The pitfalls of analysing media coverage of climate change, in three graphs
- Linking UK floods and climate change: A discussion notable by its absence?
- Labour’s £4 billion energy price rip-off claim: Investigating the data
- Why actions, not words, will decide the outcome of UN climate talks: An interview with John Ashton
- Seven climate and energy stories that will definitely/probably/maybe happen in 2014
December 2013
- Bad tidings: Carbon Briefs best climate change reads of 2013
- Seven energy events that surprised us in 2013
- Hockey sticks to huge methane burps: Five papers that shaped climate science in 2013
- Predicting the future: The challenge of regional climate projection
- Climate rhetoric: What’s an energy trilemma?
- AGU 101: A guide to the USs biggest geoscience conference
- Government expects new policies to reduce household electricity bills by £41
- Geoengineering’s limitations: technical, social, and ethical
- Fracking the UK wont reduce emissions, government report says
- Could burning coal under the sea provide 200 years of clean energy?
- Five graphs that tell the future story of coal
- Could Arctic summers be sea ice-free in three years time?
- The life and times of the UK’s energy bill