100 articles from Carbon Brief between May 2013 and July 2013
July 2013
- 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
- Will Britain really have blackouts and power rationing? Or not?
- British Geological Survey warns on the dangers of confusing shale gas resources with reserves
- Carbon Briefing: Britain’s shale gas
- The Committee on Climate Change’s fifth progress report, in more detail
- Obamas ‘all of the above’ climate action plan sidesteps Congress to force US action
- Is more solar power a problem for the grid? No, says the Grid
- Is there electric light at the end of the Channel tunnel?
- Busting the myths about climate migration
- Obama can hide his climate policy from Congress, but he cant run away forever
- Climate policy in the Economist: Why ‘wait and see’ doesn’t cut it
- The question Horizon missed: What might UK shale gas mean for greenhouse gas emissions?
- International Energy Agency: No gas revolution before 2020
- EU committee passes backloading compromise – but has the measure lost its teeth?
- What climate change means for vulnerable communities, and what that could mean for us
- Trust and balance: Why its so hard to communicate climate change
- Umbrellas at the ready: Can the UK really expect washout summers for a decade?
- Capacity markets, old coal and a decarbonisation target (again): Its time for the energy bill, round two
- David Roses latest mash up of Met Office weather and climate research
- Has the Sunday Telegraph revealed the ‘true cost’ of windfarms?
- Can real-time climate data help avert disasters?
- Understanding Cuadrilla’s shale gas predictions
- Warming ocean is biggest driver of Antarctic ice shelf melt, says new study
- A climate debate beyond windfarms: engaging the centre-right on climate change
- Soil carbon makes biomass calculations even more complicated
- Three reasons not to get too excited about the UKs shale oil and gas prospects
- Meet Sir Robert Smith, interim chair of the ECC Committee
- MPs don’t plan to cut electricity demand by a quarter by 2020
- Owen Paterson swims against the tide of scientific opinion on climate change
- Three charts showing why the world needs to take climate change action now
- Reconciling the science, economics and policy of climate sensitivity: would a lower value buy us more time?
- Researcher: Forget trading numbers over energy bill savings; the government needs to build fairness into energy policies
- Using CCS to cut emissions is a good idea, but we need to find out if it works first
- What do the government’s new onshore windfarm rules actually mean?
- The Sunday Times and the strikingly similar ‘dash for gas’ research
- What’s new on ice sheet melt?
- So the 2030 decarbonisation target didn’t pass – what now?
- Conservative infographic compares apples and elephants on energy bills
- Can shale gas replace 10 years of imports?
- Is there a coal powered loophole in the energy bill?
- From a decarbonisation target to new nuclear contracts: The key amendments in this week’s energy bill debates
- Extra water or more heat – what’s driving sea level rise?
May 2013
- The Daily Express cherrypicks new research on projections of warming
- Boring but brilliant: Four dull-yet-important energy solutions
- Reducing uncertainty should be priority in climate modelling, say scientists
- Tim Yeo says his views on climate change “haven’t changed one iota”
- UK emissions rise while most of Europe’s fall
- Are renewables subsidies on their way out?
- Strong call for emissions reductions in Mail on Sunday
- EU energy pathways and 2030 emissions targets: No surprises
- Laying the foundations for climate impacts research
- We all agree about communicating climate consensus, dont we?
- Committee on Climate Change: if were going to decarbonise, we need to know how
- Scientists: How Matt Ridley misinterpreted new climate sensitivity paper
- ECC committee: Government must show what Green Deal success looks like
- Surface warming slowdown doesnt affect climate sensitivity, study says
- Could energy bills overtake mortgages in the next five years?
- Will households really pay £600 for green energy?
- New report hopes to bring clarity to biomass debate
- A double dose of climate science from the BBC’s Today Programme
- Your guide to the oil market pricing investigation
- DECC’s latest fuel poverty figures in three charts
- Consensus study: fewer than one per cent of climate studies reject human causes
- Carbon Briefing: what does extracting shale gas mean for the local environment?
- Scientists warn of up to 70 cm of sea level rise by 2100, but is this better or worse than we thought?
- Out with the old and in with the new? The rhetoric of new nuclear
- Expecting the unexpected: the consequences of the USs resurgence as a fossil fuel power
- How scientists take earths temperature: an interview with climate expert Richard Allan
- Five facts to impress your friends on smart meter day
- SSE head Ian Marchant on renewables, nuclear and Donald Rumsfeld
- New study tells three million-year old story of the Arctic
- The good life, the green economy and global catastrophe: the changing rhetoric of renewables
- Scientists shed light on Greenland glacier melt – and what it means for sea level rise
- What’s causing the surface warming slowdown? Scientists tell us what they think
- Why is the UK government interested in German coal?
- Companies spend millions looking for energy efficiency scheme participants
- Plans to massively expand wood burning lead to concerns about sustainability
- Scientists’ thoughts on 400 parts per million