100 articles from Carbon Brief between November 2013 and January 2014
January 2014
- Why more political rifts could be good for international climate negotiations
- What the papers say: The EU’s 2030 target
- What does 2013 being the 4th hottest year on record tell us about climate change?
- Npower changes ‘misleading’ figure in energy report
- Thousands left vulnerable as flood funding shortfall has knock-on effect on flood insurance scheme
- In brief: The EU’s new 2030 climate and energy package
- Can EU member states be trusted to fulfil 2030 climate promises without a country-specific renewable energy target?
- Trust in energy companies has fallen to near-rock bottom. Why?
- Do we need new laws on shale gas?
- Could renewable energy trading solve the EU’s 2030 ambition problem?
- Government ignores own evidence to promote shale gas push
- European battle over 2030 energy system drawing to a close
- Newsnight and the Daily Mail ponder the effect of low solar activity on the climate
- Increasing transparency and protecting the poor: Making fairer climate policy
- UK tops list of world’s biggest greenhouse gas emitters
- New studies explore conscious and unconscious links between weather and climate change attitudes
- No shortage of energy as emissions rise: BP
- Behind 2013’s energy bill headlines, in five charts
- UK leads the charge against European Union shale gas regulation
- New fracking incentives may not be enough to win communities’ support
- Cameron “gets the balance about right” on climate change and extreme weather
- European Commission president could sacrifice renewable energy target for personal legacy
- Public support for gas power rises as concern about climate change dips
- The British don’t see cold weather as evidence against climate change, according to new polling
- Will climate change mean more storms and floods for Britain?
- The pitfalls of analysing media coverage of climate change, in three graphs
- Linking UK floods and climate change: A discussion notable by its absence?
- Labour’s £4 billion energy price rip-off claim: Investigating the data
- Why actions, not words, will decide the outcome of UN climate talks: An interview with John Ashton
- Seven climate and energy stories that will definitely/probably/maybe happen in 2014
December 2013
- Bad tidings: Carbon Briefs best climate change reads of 2013
- Seven energy events that surprised us in 2013
- Hockey sticks to huge methane burps: Five papers that shaped climate science in 2013
- Predicting the future: The challenge of regional climate projection
- Climate rhetoric: What’s an energy trilemma?
- AGU 101: A guide to the USs biggest geoscience conference
- Government expects new policies to reduce household electricity bills by £41
- Geoengineering’s limitations: technical, social, and ethical
- Fracking the UK wont reduce emissions, government report says
- Could burning coal under the sea provide 200 years of clean energy?
- Five graphs that tell the future story of coal
- Could Arctic summers be sea ice-free in three years time?
- The life and times of the UK’s energy bill
- Costs, savings and… shale gas: A media roundup of the CCCs carbon budget review
- Three radical ideas to help individuals take climate action
- Huhne: Forget the carbon budget, US shale gas is the biggest threat to UK competitiveness
- Can the government legally change the fourth carbon budget?
- Can the government overcome inconsistencies in its flood planning?
- A summary of green levy reforms in the chancellor’s autumn statement
- Old coal puts energy bill into ping pong
- More for offshore wind, less for onshore and solar: what the new subsidies announcement says about the governments renewable energy plans
- Ambition but no guarantees in the government’s energy infrastructure wish list
- Current UN climate targets could push two degree limit out of reach
- Will the ‘big six’ profit from lobbying to keep homes energy inefficient?
- Mail on Sunday’s £300 billion ‘eco bill’ claim is almost double government estimates
- Whats new about the governments energy efficiency announcements?
- Energy bills still set to rise, just a little less than before
- Parliamentary Committee challenges weakening of government fuel poverty targets
November 2013
- Decoding Labour’s 10-point energy plan
- Is the government prepared to talk about fuel poverty?
- UK uses more energy, more renewables, and still relies on fossil fuels as imports rise
- Could ‘peer pressure’ replace a global climate deal?
- Avoiding a new ‘cold’ war: the US militarys new Arctic strategy
- The rest of Europe lags behind the UK in preparing cities for climate change
- Shale gas could restrain rising energy costs, says report
- The climate change benefits of high speed rail rest on decarbonising the power sector
- Research brief: New study suggests warming set to continue even if emissions drop to zero
- Warsaw climate talks offer glimpse of progress, but defer major decisions
- IPCC sea level rise projection probably too low, says expert survey
- Energy companies network costs estimate 10 times larger than Ofgems
- No time for delay in cutting greenhouse gas emissions, say IPCC scientists
- Japan’s nuclear rollback doesn’t fully explain why it’s relaxing climate targets
- Why it’s hard to cut the ‘green crap’
- 5 facts about Europe’s carbon emissions
- UK limitation on coal funding could close door on controversial coal plant
- Our work is unlikely to be last word on slowdown, say authors of new paper
- The UN climate talks have a responsibility problem
- Q & A: Untangling the science on climate change and tropical storms
- Unpopular but tenacious: A guide to the UK carbon price floor
- 2013 emissions edge the world closer to 2 degrees
- Can coal be compatible with emissions cuts?
- Not so slow slowdown? New paper says warming in last 15 years may be double what scientists thought
- Warsaw climate talks: Is a carbon market ‘toolbox’ a precursor to a global deal, or just a waste of time?
- Speculation over typhoon Haiyan link to climate change: A media roundup
- Low income households hit hardest by future energy bill increases, government watchdog warns
- Energy company price hikes – the data
- No backing down on energy efficiency, says Ed Davey, as ECO’s future hangs in the balance
- How the IEA says we can avoid six degrees of warming – In three graphs
- How vulnerable is the energy sector to extreme weather?
- A blagger’s guide to the Warsaw climate talks
- How energy companies make profit: A closer look at the data
- To succeed, international climate negotiations must be tailored to US and China
- Did the Montreal Protocol contribute to the surface warming slowdown?
- Fossil fuel subsidies and the economics of energy transformation
- Will the UK meet its 2020 renewables target?
- Committee on Climate Change says IPCC report means no change to carbon budget
- Natural aerosols complicate climate understanding
- UK chief scientist tells MPs: Any scientist involved in climate change will say there has to be more public communication
- Rising costs or corporate greed? Exploring retail and wholesale energy price data
- The UK public likes renewables, is worried about the cost of energy