100 articles from Carbon Brief between June 2012 and October 2012

October 2012

• Uncertainty in weather and climate prediction: A Royal Society meeting discusses what it means and what to do about it
• What’s the future for corals under climate change projections?
• Carbon Brief weekly update 4 October 2012
• Can we estimate the tipping point into irreversible climate change? We assess the One Hundred Months campaign
• Carbon Brief’s pick of the Climate and Energy events at the Conservative conference
• Counting the cost of Antarctic research: the British Antarctic Survey merger
• Polar bear scientist Dr Charles Monnett cleared of scientific misconduct

September 2012

• A pinch of salt for new carbon storage modelling
• Carbon Brief’s pick of the Climate and Energy events at the Labour conference
• Christopher Booker flunks general studies
• Arguing over when the Arctic ocean will be ice-free might be missing the point
• Lib Dems vote in favour of 2030 target
• Carbon Brief’s pick of the Climate and Energy events at the Lib Dem Conference
• Alex Salmond claims Scottish independence would increase energy market certainty
• Thinning ice probably explains record low Arctic sea ice coverage
• Statoil’s UK PR campaign: a quiet power play
• Wind in the media: latest update
• What are the consequences of Arctic sea ice decline?
• The big squeeze: Gas price rises are slowing down, but don’t expect lower bills
• The Committee on Climate Change’s attack on government gas policy – the context
• Climategate, caps-lock, skeptic rebuttals and industry chats: DECC’s FOI treasure trove
• BBC makes a locally-sourced meal of discussing Arctic sea ice melt
• Transcript – Newsnight discusses the Arctic, with Peter Lilley MP and Natalie Bennett
• Europe’s shale gas battles
• New models suggest wind power won’t cause global warming
• New studies show how geoengineering could work, but at what cost?
• The Carbon Briefing: Australia’s punt on the EU ETS – how does it work?
• With a coalition fight brewing over energy policy, meet Owen Paterson, your new environment secretary
• Do we know when the Arctic will be sea ice-free?

August 2012

• New Met Office data shows the United Kingdom is warming in line with global trends
• The Carbon Briefing: Is Tim Yeo right to claim a third runway won’t make any difference to UK emissions?
• Arctic sea ice extent reaches new low in satellite history
• Media outlets put their own spin on Antarctic ice core records showing recent rapid warming
• Tall tales: Telegraph misrepresents turbine visualisations body’s comments
• Clouding the issue: skeptics mistake clouds paper for proof of fringe climate theory
• Why there’s more to a fall in US emissions than meets the eye
• How regions may still experience cold winters in a warming world: visualising the role of natural variability in a global warming trend
• Arctic summer melt – which records are being broken?
• Mine’s cheaper than yours: gas and wind proponents trade mangled statistics
• Has there ever been a level energy playing field? Putting renewables subsidies in context
• Will the UK have the climate of Madeira by 2060, as Costing the Earth suggests?
• Chatham House: Waiting for the shale gas revolution could be bad for energy prices and emissions
• Christopher Booker proves that wind energy is intermittent
• Arctic summer melt – news and views round-up
• As the Arctic sea ice melts, be wary of ‘Methane Emergency’ claims
• Is China the new green superpower?
• Changes and trends in global fossil fuel consumption
• Carbon Briefing: The coming PR battle over shale gas
• The futurologist: an interview with climate conflict expert Ian Shields
• Why Fraser Nelson’s Olympic optimism about climate change and fossil fuel consumption may be misplaced
• Is climate change really making squirrels sleep in?
• New study linking hot summers to climate change: scientists react
• Will energy bills rise £300 by 2020 because of wind power, as the Express claims?
• Why we won’t see tropical plants in Antarctica any time soon
• Richard Muller on BEST, skeptics, the Urban Heat Island and future plans – transcript
• The BEST is yet to come – Richard Muller on the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Project, whether he’s a ‘skeptic’, and BEST’s climate policy ambitions
• New study says the Greenland ice sheet is becoming more sensitive to atmospheric warming
• Carbon uptake has doubled over last 50 years – but where is it going?

July 2012

• Money for mangroves
• Out of date statistics make Christopher Booker’s wind power maths a bit shaky
• BEST: The science behind Richard Muller’s ‘conversion’
• Sun writers disagree on windpower
• Carbon Brief’s shamelessly tenuous Olympics Friday Five
• What’s DECC’s plan on gas?
• Greenland 97 per cent surface melting – what does it mean?
• Onshore wind subsidies spared with 10% cut, as DECC also announces gas power has a ‘key role’ beyond 2030
• The Carbon Briefing: Do the UK’s green taxes make its industry uncompetitive?
• Energy cold war goes hot
• At a glance: Key criticisms of UK draft energy bill in Select Committee report
• Energy efficiency: policies need reform, but the UK still outperforms other countries
• Daily Mail attributes the entire cost of upgrading the UK energy system to “wind farm pylons”
• ‘You can’t absolutely prove, can you, that CO2 is responsible for global warming?’ The Today programme out of its depth on climate science
• Old study – same error: The Mail is still wrong about Asian glaciers
• Is the washout summer proof of climate change? Could Radio 5 have made a worse programme?
• Why does it always rain on me? The British media talk weather and climate change
• Does more carbon dioxide mean more forests? And is this all good? Not quite.
• Fox News: It’s not OK to link extreme weather to global warming (unless we do it)
• DECC polling shows people still worried about energy bills, support renewable energy
• Everything you wanted to know about CCS (but were afraid to ask)
• Does the BBC really have to keep presenting climate science as ‘believers’ versus ‘skeptics’?
• Wiltshire’s wind regulation: blowing evidence-based policymaking out of the window
• Unseasonal summer doesn’t make climate models wrong

June 2012

• We need proper research into the climate impacts of shale gas, says Royal Society, as the Committee on Climate Change warns over emissions from gas
• The Register reports climate poll inaccurately
• The Guardian jumps the gun on record June sea ice melt
• Scientists respond to the Register on Antarctic ice shelf melt: ‘This is the equivalent of turning the statement “the cancer is not as bad as we thought” into “you don’t have cancer”.’
• Enthusiastic climate science communicator? Come and work with us
• Cutting methane emissions could give us an extra decade to deal with climate change
• Why are new estimates of emissions from tropical deforestation lower?
• Has the law caught up with science in North Carolina?
• Polling indicates belief in climate change has risen – so why does the Sunday Times describe it as ‘cooling off’?
• Confidential House of Commons research on renewables and fuel poverty makes it into the Sunday Telegraph
• More work needed to find and develop new energy technologies
• Stick to the data on shale gas, say experts, as climate change takes a back seat
• Nine climate change pictures I really don’t need to see again
• Don’t like sea level rise projections? Make them illegal
• How much does onshore wind power cost?
• AR5’s coming – get busy: why scientists must get better at communicating uncertainty
• The Future of Climate Projections
• The anatomy of a WSJ article on “Europe’s Green Energy Suicide”