100 articles from Carbon Brief between November 2013 and February 2014

February 2014

• 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 Brief’s 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 US’s biggest geoscience conference
• Government expects new policies to reduce household electricity bills by £41
• Geoengineering’s limitations: technical, social, and ethical
• Fracking the UK won’t 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
• Costs, savings and… shale gas: A media roundup of the CCC’s carbon budget review
• Three ‘radical’ ideas to help individuals take climate action
• Huhne: Forget the carbon budget, US shale gas is the biggest threat to UK competitiveness
• Can the government legally change the fourth carbon budget?
• Can the government overcome inconsistencies in its flood planning?
• A summary of green levy reforms in the chancellor’s autumn statement
• Old coal puts energy bill into ping pong
• More for offshore wind, less for onshore and solar: what the new subsidies announcement says about the government’s renewable energy plans
• Ambition but no guarantees in the government’s energy infrastructure wish list
• Current UN climate targets could push two degree limit out of reach
• Will the ‘big six’ profit from lobbying to keep homes energy inefficient?
• Mail on Sunday’s £300 billion ‘eco bill’ claim is almost double government estimates
• What’s new about the government’s energy efficiency announcements?
• Energy bills still set to rise, just a little less than before
• Parliamentary Committee challenges weakening of government fuel poverty targets

November 2013

• Decoding Labour’s 10-point energy plan
• Is the government prepared to talk about fuel poverty?
• UK uses more energy, more renewables, and still relies on fossil fuels as imports rise
• Could ‘peer pressure’ replace a global climate deal?
• Avoiding a new ‘cold’ war: the US military’s new Arctic strategy
• The rest of Europe lags behind the UK in preparing cities for climate change
• Shale gas could restrain rising energy costs, says report
• The climate change benefits of high speed rail rest on decarbonising the power sector
• Research brief: New study suggests warming set to continue even if emissions drop to zero
• Warsaw climate talks offer glimpse of progress, but defer major decisions
• IPCC sea level rise projection probably too low, says expert survey
• Energy companies’ network costs estimate 10 times larger than Ofgem’s
• No time for delay in cutting greenhouse gas emissions, say IPCC scientists
• Japan’s nuclear rollback doesn’t fully explain why it’s relaxing climate targets
• Why it’s hard to cut the ‘green crap’
• 5 facts about Europe’s carbon emissions
• UK limitation on coal funding could close door on controversial coal plant
• Our work is unlikely to be last word on slowdown, say authors of new paper
• The UN climate talks have a responsibility problem