100 articles from Carbon Brief between February 2013 and May 2013
May 2013
- 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?
March 2013
- UK greenhouse gas emissions rose in 2012 – DECC
- The best energy and climate change poll ever
- Climate policy or economic recovery? Polling shows people want both, and favour investment in green industries
- Polling: UK public blames energy companies for higher bills; is split over paying more for climate change and energy security
- Green policies will put bills up £280, but bring them down by £450, says DECC
- Does the Sunday Telegraphs alternative energy policy add up?
- Asia going low carbon faster than Europe, report says
- World’s oceans are getting warmer, faster
- Is the UKs limited gas storage capacity a problem?
- Five reasons why the speed of Arctic sea ice loss matters
- Energy return on investment – which fuels win?
- Scientists set straight the latest Mail on Sunday climate contortion
- Climate change experts support shale gas – but only with caveats
- Regulating for US climate action: The bets are on
- What makes clean coal ‘clean’: A rhetorical look
- What do climate policies mean for social justice?
- New government research adds to biomass emissions controversy
- Ask the scientists: Are rainforests resilient to climate change?
- Coal’s 42 billion health toll
- What hockey stick graphs tell us about recent climate change
- “We’ve managed these things in the past, and managed them quite well” – an interview with Richard Smith of National Grid
- Arctic summers could be nearly ice free by 2050
- Is it bourgeois to worry about biofuels?
- Saving the EU emissions trading scheme may mean abandoning key principles
- How on earth is the government going to finance new nuclear?
- Insulating the UK from volatile gas prices
- Wet and dry: Is the UKs weather going to get more extreme with climate change?
- Why windfarms get paid to switch off
- Shell shows interesting new ways to miss emissions reductions targets
February 2013
- UK energy statistics show big jump in coal-fired electricity last year
- Centrica has reported a profit – Its infographic time
- Slowing winds and the complications of building large windfarms
- UK oil and gas investment is rising: What does that say about the governments commitment to decarbonisation?
- Site windfarms carefully, for peat’s sake
- Coral bleaching could be the norm by the 2050s
- Why we risk overinterpreting China’s carbon tax statements
- New research projects widespread permafrost thaw with 1.5 degrees of warming
- European carbon price is still in trouble
- New nuclear – it’s about time (and money)
- More dependent on gas… if we mess up climate targets
- How the global market is pushing up UK gas prices
- EU emissions trading scheme saved – for now
- Can we really have carbon negative power?
- Will less ice be good or bad for Arctic ecosystems? Scientists discuss.
- Introducing parliament’s new fracking group
- What you need to know about PwCs shale oil findings
- New satellite data confirms major Arctic ice loss
- The Telegraph’s confusing laundry
- Climate rhetoric – From apocalypse to action in Obamas State of the Union
- Gas strategy fails to bring clarity to the UK’s energy future
- Cost, not capacity, is the crucial statistic for renewable energy
- Does the financial sector believe in unburnable carbon?
- Crepe! Will climate change ruin pancake day?
- Warming continent: What the BBC could have said about climate change in Africa
- Greenhouse gas emissions from soils increased by earthworms: opening a can of worms