100 articles from Carbon Brief between July 2013 and October 2013

October 2013

• 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?
• Businesses not allowed to be ‘unconcerned’ about green charges in npower poll
• Dangerous climate change at anything but two degrees
• Solar power: how renewable energy’s Cinderella got a fancy new dress and went to the ball
• Pests moving polewards threaten global food security

August 2013

• Shale gas: more or less polluting than coal
• Coalition lobbying bill risks suffocating climate policy debate
• New study: Pacific Ocean holds the key to surface warming ‘hiatus’
• Where’s hot – and not: where would you rather be a wind turbine?
• Climate: The sun’s role is important, but it’s just a cameo
• Yes, windfarms need wind to work: The danger of taking data snapshots
• How the Conservatives sextupled the CCC’s estimate for green power costs
• Will earth experience extra warming as oceans acidify?
• New paper sparks discussion over whether Arctic sea ice loss is linked to UK cold winters
• What’s the difference between natural gas, liquid natural gas, shale gas, shale oil and methane? An oil and gas glossary
• More on the IPCC’s leaked climate report: A roundup of media reactions
• Claims of a global warming pause have had no impact on public opinion
• Climate models predict hard times ahead for global food production
• How much climate change is dangerous? Our poll tries to find out what people think
• Where next for shale gas in the UK?
• UK flood fund underestimates number of homes at risk
• Fracking has hardly any public support – but opponents have a tough choice
• Polling shows only a quarter of Conservative voters want shale gas in their area
• The UK’s power plant graveyards: what, where, and why
• Carbon Briefing: how much of our water will fracking use?
• Heat wave spread can be curbed with carbon cuts
• A vicious cycle: Could droughts and storms make climate change worse?
• We need a global geoengineering watchdog, researchers say
• Is shale gas good or bad for climate change?
• From fat-fuelled power plants to shady parks: How cities are preparing for climate change
• The quickest Q & A on shale gas you’ll see all week: Carbon Brief’s shale gas back catalogue
• Cutting methane and soot alone is no quick fix for climate
• Is David Cameron right to be confident in the UK’s shale gas regulation?
• Cameron throws a penny in the shale gas well and hopes his wishes come true
• Power company profit figures don’t take investment into account, says energy industry
• The BBC discusses changes in the sun – and why they don’t mean an ice age is on the way
• How a definition change lifts households out of fuel poverty
• The battle of Balcombe, misinformation and not much on climate change: a week in shale gas
• What makes ice sheets grow and shrink?
• Consumers don’t believe the government can keep decarbonisation costs under control
• How to encourage community engagement with mid-size ‘local energy’ projects
• There’s no such thing as domestic climate policy: An interview with John Ashton
• A people’s history of shale gas: How the media story moved from myth to reality
• Diesel generation won’t be used as renewables backup, despite critics’ claims
• Reflections on a changing Arctic: Less ice means faster warming
• Does new research explain the link between climate change and conflict, or show how hard that is to do?
• Knock-on effects for wildlife as the Arctic loses ice

July 2013

• Checking five claims in The Sun’s ‘vision’ of Britain’s energy sector
• Burn now, pay later – today’s emissions lock in long term sea level rise
• Fuel poverty policy is ‘frozen’, says parliamentary committee. Can the government fix it?
• Scientists mull slow carbon loss from Arctic permafrost
• The Energiewende and energy prices: Public support and Germany’s long term vision
• Government en route to failure on fuel poverty targets and energy efficiency
• The Energiewende: Transforming Germany’s energy sector
• Taking Earth’s temperature: Three Met Office reports examine the warming pause, climate sensitivity and taking a broad view of climate change
• UK’s energy sector still dependent on high carbon imports
• How likely is a huge Arctic methane pulse? We find disagreement among scientists
• The Energiewende: An introductory look at Germany’s energy transformation
• Lost in translation: Scientific uncertainty and belief in climate change
• Scientists examine how Africa’s rainforests will fare as the climate changes
• Fuels with benefits: paying communities to host new energy infrastructure
• Osborne’s tax breaks unlikely to lead to shale gas bonanza
• DECC’s conflicting gas price projections
• Government fails to bring clarity to electricity market reforms
• Davey vs Neil: Two non-scientists discuss climate change on the Sunday Politics show
• Stable energy prices and no energy efficiency: A closer look at Npower’s energy bill estimates