100 articles from Carbon Brief between May 2012 and September 2012
September 2012
- 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
- Statoils 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 dont expect lower bills
- The Committee on Climate Change’s attack on government gas policy – the context
- Climategate, caps-lock, skeptic rebuttals and industry chats: DECCs 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
- Europes shale gas battles
- New models suggest wind power wont cause global warming
- New studies show how geoengineering could work, but at what cost?
- The Carbon Briefing: Australias 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 wont 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 theres 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 BESTs 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 Briefs 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 UKs 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’?
- Wiltshires 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
- Dont like sea level rise projections? Make them illegal
- How much does onshore wind power cost?
- AR5s 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”
- 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