100 articles from Carbon Brief between September 2013 and November 2013

November 2013

• Q & A: Untangling the science on climate change and tropical storms
• Unpopular but tenacious: A guide to the UK carbon price floor
• 2013 emissions edge the world closer to 2 degrees
• Can coal be compatible with emissions cuts?
• Not so slow “slowdown”? New paper says warming in last 15 years may be double what scientists thought
• Warsaw climate talks: Is a carbon market ‘toolbox’ a precursor to a global deal, or just a waste of time?
• Speculation over typhoon Haiyan link to climate change: A media roundup
• Low income households hit hardest by future energy bill increases, government watchdog warns
• Energy company price hikes – the data
• No backing down on energy efficiency, says Ed Davey, as ECO’s future hangs in the balance
• How the IEA says we can avoid six degrees of warming – In three graphs
• How vulnerable is the energy sector to extreme weather?
• A blagger’s guide to the Warsaw climate talks
• How energy companies make profit: A closer look at the data
• To succeed, international climate negotiations must be tailored to US and China
• Did the Montreal Protocol contribute to the surface warming slowdown?
• Fossil fuel subsidies and the economics of energy transformation
• Will the UK meet its 2020 renewables target?
• Committee on Climate Change says IPCC report means no change to carbon budget
• Natural aerosols complicate climate understanding
• UK chief scientist tells MPs: Any scientist involved in climate change will say there has to be more public communication
• Rising costs or corporate greed? Exploring retail and wholesale energy price data
• The UK public likes renewables, is worried about the cost of energy
• Global security in the age of climate responsibility
• Government plan to shuffle green policy costs could hurt consumers in the long run
• Could old coal threaten the UK’s carbon budgets?
• 2012’s carbon emissions in five graphs
• Solar Activity and the so-called “Little Ice Age”

October 2013

• 10,000 year record shows Pacific depths warming fast
• The 18th energy market investigation since 2001: Will this one be different?
• UK energy statistics show wind power and biomass push renewable electricity to record high – for a bit
• Low carbon zones: an energy efficiency proposal that might work
• Climate scientists don’t think we’re heading for another “Little Ice Age”
• Wet UK summers: melting Arctic sea ice may be partly to blame
• Carbon Briefing: energy companies appear before the Energy and Climate Change Committee
• Energy taxes: new polls show why they’re under attack
• ECO shouldn’t be driving up bills, according to government data
• How the media covered the ‘green taxes’ story – in 5 stages
• Extreme policy events: reviewing green taxes media coverage
• Analysis: What are green taxes, could they be scrapped, and what would the effect be
• How much do renewable and energy efficiency policies add to energy bills?
• Eight years’ worth of current emissions halves the chances of staying below two degrees warming
• Carbon briefing: Making sense of the IPCC’s new carbon budget
• Drying in the Amazon rainforest – what could it mean for climate change?
• Transformation versus the status quo: Energy’s split narrative
• Four big questions about the nuclear deal
• An overview of the new nuclear deal
• No corner of the ocean will escape climate change, say scientists
• Interrogating British Gas’s energy bill rise
• On ice: US government impasse halts climate research and policy
• People don’t trust energy companies to give them advice about energy efficiency
• Has the worm turned for climate change?
• Wholesale energy and the network grid: the parts of our energy bill politicians can’t control?
• SSE’s green tax claims and a nuclear deal: a look at this weekend’s media coverage
• What the IPCC report says about extreme weather events
• How much of SSE’s energy bill hike is due to green subsidies?
• Apocalypse norm: ‘Climate departure’ assessment prompts doomsday media coverage
• Trading a decarbonisation target for coal plant closures: Is it a good deal?
• Nearly everyone hates ECO – but how else can we make houses more energy efficient?
• Three graphs breaking down media coverage of the IPCC’s big report
• 2,000 solar farms unlikely to materialise under government roadmap
• The Daily Mirror predicts winter power blackout; National Grid confident it won’t happen
• Sunday Telegraph front page marks return to ‘green taxes’ debate
• Are energy companies making excess profits?
• Committee on Climate Change fires a salvo in battle over carbon budget
• What the new IPCC report says about sea level rise
• What do Labour and Conservative energy promises have in common? Overlooking climate change
• What the new IPCC report means for Europe
• Turning energy policy into the war over wind

September 2013

• Why the UK’s politics are incapable of governing energy
• Scientists react to today’s UN climate report
• IPCC: Six graphs that explain how the climate is changing
• Carbon Brief’s guide to the IPCC report
• The IPCC report: A summary for everyone
• Profits, green policies and the return of socialism: a roundup of reaction to Miliband’s energy price freeze
• Roulette, insurance policies and loading the dice: What could the IPCC learn about risk? A Q&A with James Painter
• Labour’s energy plan leaves Miliband with some explaining to do
• Methane reserves: Does size really matter?
• UK media gear up for major climate report
• UKIP’s energy policy: Lots of fracking, little evidence
• Poll appears to show growth in climate skepticism – but what kind is it?
• Less than one metre or up to two? Predicting sea level rise in the 21st century
• A pre-IPCC recap of the links between extreme weather and climate change
• Fugitive shale gas emissions can be kept low, says new study, at a cost
• Satellite data confirms humans are the main cause of temperature rise
• Boris’s energy policy quick fix will take a decade to kick in
• Cost of climate deal delay comparable to the financial crisis, researchers say
• More ice than last year is still bad news for the Arctic
• Breaking up is hard to do: Tony Abbott’s struggle to dismantle Australia’s climate policy
• Energiewende: Electricity bills and Germany’s election
• City of London tops UK carbon footprint list
• The Mail on Sunday’s topsy-turvy view of climate change continues
• Invest in storage to reap renewables’ bounty
• Ed Davey: New planning regulations don’t allow local veto for wind turbines
• Climate change is biggest shale gas risk, scientists say
• UK power stations to carry on burning wood, spelling uncertainty for emissions
• European Commission limbers up for long fight over new climate targets
• 2012’s extreme events – what role did climate change play?
• Report: Government needs a ‘low regrets’ renewable energy plan B
• ‘Carbon pollution’: What’s the use of a new term in the climate debate?