100 articles from Carbon Brief between March 2013 and June 2013
June 2013
- 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
- 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 dont 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 youre 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 Europes emissions trading scheme
- Climate scientists highlight urgent need to get to grips with black carbon
- New Met Office report examines climate links to this years 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 UKs cold weather? More on the Met Office emergency meeting
- Commentators: EU backloading failure makes carbon market irrelevant
- Thinktank: Biofuels are too expensive – and they dont 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 UKs 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?
- Open letter raises concerns over government nuclear secrecy
- The Holocene: Scientists meet to discuss reconstructing the climate of the past
- UK fossil fuel support increased by £500 million, says OECD
- The costs and benefits of climate action: Are policymakers wrong to think we should cut emissions now?
- What does it mean when a climate model gets it right?
- EU emissions drop shows need for carbon market reform
- Is the carbon price floor going to push 60,000 households into fuel poverty?
- Poll: It doesnt matter whats causing it – UK adults believe the government must act on climate change
- Polling reveals public trusts scientists most on climate
- How does Carbon Briefs polling fit in with other research?