100 articles from Carbon Brief between February 2012 and June 2012
June 2012
- Algae under Arctic sea ice – certainly not going to solve our CO2 problem
- Can climate change cause earthquakes? We look at the science and the spin
- If George Osborne reduces subsidies for onshore wind, what will it mean for 2020 renewable energy targets?
- A couple of changes to our comment policy
- Three-quarters of Arctic sea ice lost in 30 years? We check.
- When it comes to Geoengineering, are you a Promethean?
May 2012
- Inaccuracy through two degrees of separation – Mail mangles science literacy findings by misreporting Fox
- How confident should we be..? A psychologist answers our question about his research
- Ed Davey’s defence of UK gas policy doesn’t give the full picture
- Another warming myth busted? Only in a Mail Online headline
- Fugitive emissions from shale gas: our Q&A
- Geeks form cliques too – why better scientific understanding doesn’t guarantee concern about climate change
- A high estimate for shale gas wont solve our climate change woes
- Energy policy or the dark art of global cooling?
- £100 or £1000? The Times and the Telegraph interpret Energy Bill figures in very different ways
- Poking a complex system – Will the end of La Niña mean record temperature rise?
- Anti-wind lobby group criticises DECC’s projections on energy bills – is it right?
- Reaction to the draft energy bill – and the questions it raises
- Zombie statistics: £200 figure that won’t die lurches onto Today Programme
- Christopher Booker on climate science: comment and conjecture, but where are the facts?
- The Telegraph fumbles cost of carbon price floor to consumers
- Overstating climate findings – its just not helpful
- Americans get the most information about climate models from Rush Limbaugh
- Hail to the geeks!
- Report suggests need for certainty on business carbon reduction legislation
- Myths versus facts: the real deal on the Green Deal
- Ofgem figures show energy bills continue to rise rapidly
- Is climate change all just a recovery from the Little Ice Age?
- Video: How do climate models work
- Summer’s been a washout so far. Does that tell us anything about climate change?
- Booker short of the mark on greenhouse gas claims
- Telegraph muddle the numbers on electricity bills
- Mail Online absolutely wrong to infer global cooling from new research – but that doesn’t stop it warning of new Ice Age
- Reporting of Lord Smith’s views on shale gas misses the important caveats
- Latest Arctic sea ice science
- Glaciologists ride to the rescue: Greenland mistake corrected in peer-reviewed paper
- Shale gas needs CCS and emissions guarantee, says Environment Agency boss
- Global confidence in CCS wanes
- Study into Greenlands speeding glaciers prompts yet more confusion
- Potential crunch coming for UK gas supplies – Ofgem CEO
- Wind turbine bites dog: Wind farms and global warming
- Creating a credible alternative: communicating climate change on the Right
April 2012
- Wind farms can affect local temperature – how the papers reported it
- Open access publishing and how science gets into the media
- David Camerons energy remarks leave media to create their own narrative
- By the Mail’s reasoning, temperatures have “barely risen” – by 9 degrees
- Climate change: Lovelock changes his mind but the planet’s still warming
- Republican meteorologist on why climate change has nothing to do with Al Gore
- 1,000 trillion cubic feet of offshore shale gas? Dont believe the figures, says geologist
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- Extreme weather leads to extremely different headlines
- How to write a Daily Mail article about climate change
- Top Tories buy into Mails mischaracterisation of the Green Deal
- Delving into the great green myth
- Ten thousand, ten percent or a green deal? More mangled numbers on the Mails conservatory tax
- Scientist Responds To Misleading Polar Bear Coverage
- Cosmic dust and Chinese whispers
- What does the Climate Change Committee advice on aviation and shipping mean in practice?
- A disservice to the scientific method: climate scientists take on Richard Lindzen
- Lessons in Newspeak: How to make a sociologist sound Orwellian
- Publish and be wrong: Daily Mail prints article even after scientist says it “misrepresents” his work
- Notes from a Small Island State: AOSIS negotiators on making the case for emissions reductions
March 2012
- UK emissions are down seven per cent – but DECC is missing something big
- Why would the “Godfather of Tory donations” fund the Global Warming Policy Foundation?
- Imports of gas to the UK outpaced domestic production in 2011, for the first time
- “The majority of colleagues don’t really understand the science”: Tory MP
- From the archive – “Gas is cheap” – or gas was cheap?
- Dieter Helm to head the UK’s new green accountant
- The DECC coup”, Nigel Lawson and green taxes: George Osborne and climate change
- Does the Government still care about its climate change targets?
- Memewatch: Are we about to be menaced by 1,000 foot wind turbines?
- BA overestimates the potential of its biofuel plan
- Poll: Fukushima’s consequences for the global energy mix
- Lessons from a pro on science-based policy
- Scientists identify melting threshold for Greenland ice sheet
- The UK’s outsourced emissions almost double its carbon footprint
- New research: Some corals are adapting to heat stress from unusually warm seas
- Tornadoes and man-made climate change – a perfect storm?
- What the rebirth of the PCC could mean for the climate conversation
- A tale of two consultancies: the evolution of the Panorama wind report
- Science update from the AAAS: Phytoplankton, Vikings and Star Trek
- New scientific study suggests ocean acidification rate unparalleled over last 300m years
- Expert critique of Policy Exchange renewables report
- The Arctic’s oldest sea ice is disappearing fastest
February 2012
- Arctic ice loss could be making Britain’s winters colder and snowier
- Green costs on energy bills 101
- Impact on climate from sinking clouds? Too early to say
- Energy bills and the PCC: Our submission to the Leveson Inquiry
- Did British Gas really ignore gas when talking about energy bills?
- The Mail is feeling a little horse
- Im a policy wonk: Stern makes the case for change
- We need to talk about climate communications
- Gloom and doom on energy cuts both ways
- New Russian heatwave study solves climate conundrum
- Peter Gleick reveals himself as source of Heartland documents
- Mail doubles impact of green policies on bills, again
- Video: Ken Caldeira on limiting global temperature rise
- The climates response to energy changes takes decades
- Don’t understand the glacier melt story? Watch this video
- Heartland leak: much more than just a memo