100 articles from Carbon Brief between October 2013 and December 2013

December 2013

• 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
• 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