100 articles from Carbon Brief between June 2013 and September 2013
September 2013
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’
- Wheres 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 CCCs 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 IPCCs 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 youll see all week: Carbon Briefs 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 dont take investment into account, says energy industry
- The BBC discusses changes in the sun – and why they dont 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 dont 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 peoples history of shale gas: How the media story moved from myth to reality
- Diesel generation wont 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 Suns vision of Britains energy sector
- Burn now, pay later – todays 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 Germanys long term vision
- Government en route to failure on fuel poverty targets and energy efficiency
- The Energiewende: Transforming Germanys energy sector
- Taking Earth’s temperature: Three Met Office reports examine the warming pause, climate sensitivity and taking a broad view of climate change
- UKs 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 Germanys 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
- Osbornes tax breaks unlikely to lead to shale gas bonanza
- DECCs 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 Npowers energy bill estimates
- Each degree of warming raises sea levels 2.3 metres in the long run, says study
- Future demand for water a more certain threat to agriculture than changes in rainfall
- The science of fracking and earthquakes
- European Commission will decide fate of UKs new nuclear ambition
- Assessing where to safely store carbon dioxide: It’s all about the rock
- Carbon dioxide makes trees thriftier with water
- The UK’s agriculture, coastline and natural habitats are all threatened by climate change – so what’s the government’s response?
- Changing the baseline – a look at how we measure Arctic sea ice
- Lord Lawson’s shale gas boosterism
- New study offers different take on the future of tropical cyclones
- Three future energy megatrends, but where’s climate change?
- WMO report finds a decade of climate extremes
- Communicating the risks and uncertainties of climate change at the science and technology committee
- How PCC complaints on climate and energy are won and lost
- Are temperature targets fit for purpose?
- UK shale gas unlikely to bring down gas prices in short term, say experts
- Government report says adaptation has benefits, but the risks of climate change are still the main issue
- Fracking London? Not as bizarre as it sounds
- Scientists unveil new and improved El Niño forecasts
- Peat, windfarms and wild lands: does wind power reduce emissions in Scotland?
- Onshore wind subsidy increase could only be short term, as renewables strike prices announced
- Economic stagnation should not be an excuse for climate inaction
June 2013
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