100 articles from Carbon Brief between April 2013 and June 2013

June 2013

• 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 it’s 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): It’s time for the energy bill, round two
• David Rose’s 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 UK’s 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, don’t we?
• Committee on Climate Change: if we’re 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 doesn’t 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 US’s resurgence as a fossil fuel power
• How scientists take earth’s 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
• New social science research takes a fresh look at polar bears and two degrees
• Lords: EU must coordinate Europe’s renewable energy future
• Breaking records: UN report reviews major climate and weather events of 2012
• DECC’s climate and energy survey: One poll cooked five ways
• Scottish government’s windfarm squeeze could jeopardise renewables target

April 2013

• Why changes in solar activity don’t mean a ‘mini ice age’ is on the way
• UK shale gas resources may be ten times less than Peter Lilley claims
• Public concern over rising energy bills at an all time high
• Big Brother may be watching you – but probably not through a chip in your fridge
• Cloud-building plants help cool the atmosphere (but only slightly)
• A closer look at how Arctic sea ice is changing
• KPMG: UK is carbon tax world leader but innovation laggard
• ‘Get on and drill’, says parliamentary chair – but report reveals uncertainties remain
• Will the public subsidise new nuclear?
• Committee on Climate Change: UK imports drive up emissions
• Does DECC really know when you’re going to replace your washing machine?
• Policymakers: Carbon capture and storage delays could cost the UK £40 billion per year
• Scientists reconstruct 2,000-year temperature history continent by continent
• Creating a global carbon market to save Europe’s emissions trading scheme
• Climate scientists highlight urgent need to get to grips with black carbon
• New Met Office report examines climate links to this year’s extended winter
• IEA: Global renewable energy up, but we’re not cutting emissions
• Expert view: what next for the EU ETS?
• Three climate turning points – From US shale gas to Indian renewables
• Is Arctic ice melt behind the UK’s cold weather? More on the Met Office “emergency meeting”
• Commentators: EU backloading failure makes carbon market “irrelevant”
• Thinktank: Biofuels are too expensive – and they don’t always reduce emissions
• Five hot topics from this year’s European Geosciences Union conference
• Antarctic peninsula melt “unique in the past 1000 years”, and other lessons in ice sheet melt
• Gas from Norway, coal from Russia: eight graphs on the UK energy system
• One question, two channels: Channel 4 and ITV tackle climate change and the UK’s cold winters
• New paper shows natural climate cycles can change the pace of atmospheric warming
• Three things we learned about UK fracking at the European Geosciences Union’s great debate
• Bird death and wind turbines: a look at the evidence
• Climate sensitivity in the media: A case of mistranslation?