100 articles from Carbon Brief between November 2011 and March 2012
March 2012
- “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
- Undermining the IPCC, keeping opposing voices out, dissuading the teaching of science – Heartland in its own words? (Update: Apparently not…)
- 100 years of shale gas? Only if youre not bothered about climate change
- Warmer seas and coral: a bit good; mostly bad
- Beyond the media angles on the Himalaya paper
- KPMG: we don’t want our renewables report to be misunderstood
- Factcheck: do wind farms increase climate change?
- The Sunday Times investigate global temperatures
- DECCs new minister – can he mix business and climate?
- How to cherry-pick your ‘Global warming has stopped’ argument – in pictures
January 2012
- Watch 131 years of global temperatures in 26 seconds
- Met Office criticises ‘misleading’ Mail article predicting ‘mini ice age’
- NASA scientists: Expect record-breaking warm years soon
- Climate change – not just about blueberries
- The Express: Climate change is just a 1,500 year cycle
- Shale gas for breakfast
- Shale gas: can it be a bridge to renewables or will it extend reliance on fossil fuels?
- Q: Compared to man-made climate change, how much will the Sun influence the climate? A: Not much.
- How BP’s Energy Outlook 2030 tells the story behind the end of Keystone XL
- Planet hacking: not just a technological challenge
- How the BBC’s More or Less confused the realities of climate change
- Is Policy Exchange playing to the tabloid agenda on renewables?
- Zombie stats: When inaccurate numbers refuse to die
- New molecule from plants wont ‘solve’ global warming
- Natural ecosystems could be playing a significant role in off-setting warming – new research
- Whats going on with our winter weather?
- The Daily Mail inadvertently promotes green energy, sort of
- ‘Lethal ice age’ prevented by climate change?
- Looking to the future: 2012 in climate news
- Met Office: 2011 was UKs second warmest year
- Christopher Booker and the mystery of the DECC calculator
- Spin, clarity and the DECC energy calculator
December 2011
- Climate fact check: Polar sea ice is in decline. So why are people claiming that it’s increasing?
- Daily Mail prints third correction to its energy bills coverage
- Wrong by a factor of eight: the FT on green energy costs report
- Drop the Methane Bomb
- Electricity prices to rise 25% because of green measures say CCC – impact on bills less clear cut
- Climate skeptics react to Durban
- Frozen Planet: the climate science top six
- Britain, a nation of climate sceptics? Really?
- Climate change causes children to shrink
- Climate skeptics advise: Don’t mess with Attenborough
- News from the COP: Monckton parachutes in
- US Republican candidate sparks hunt for Scottish climate skeptic university
- Frozen Planet episode to show in USA after all
- At least three-quarters of global temperature rise since the 1950s caused by humans
- “Record setting changes” throughout the Arctic
- Rising incredulity at the Spectators use of dubious sea level claims
November 2011
- Were knives out for Frozen Planet six months ago?
- Lawsons sensationalism claim on thin ice
- Rolling news: The Daily Mail’s Friday afternoon Climategate reversionising
- New paper looks to the past to estimate the future
- Want to understand energy bills?
- UK press has cool reaction to second batch of UEA emails
- New scientific study – Arctic sea ice decline ‘unprecedented’
- So, how have the UK media reported the second batch of Climategate emails?
- More on the UEA ‘Climategate’ emails – recommended reading
- Another batch of UEA’s ‘climategate’ emails released
- Skeptic lobbyists GWPF cherrypick IPCC report to make it sound benign
- Scientist says Earth’s in ‘new phase’ of polar melting
- When Americans understand how much scientists agree on climate change they want to do something about it
- Did the BBC ‘drop’ Frozen Planet episode because it featured climate change?
- Another correction from the Mail group on energy bills
- Reuters report finds cultural divide in coverage of skeptics
- Panorama on energy bills: a look at the sources
- Have KPMG slammed renewables? Er, they’re not sure?