100 articles from Carbon Brief between June 2013 and August 2013

August 2013

• Carbon Briefing: how much of our water will fracking use?
• Heat wave spread can be curbed with carbon cuts
• A vicious cycle: Could droughts and storms make climate change worse?
• We need a global geoengineering watchdog, researchers say
• Is shale gas good or bad for climate change?
• From fat-fuelled power plants to shady parks: How cities are preparing for climate change
• The quickest Q & A on shale gas you’ll see all week: Carbon Brief’s shale gas back catalogue
• Cutting methane and soot alone is no quick fix for climate
• Is David Cameron right to be confident in the UK’s shale gas regulation?
• Cameron throws a penny in the shale gas well and hopes his wishes come true
• Power company profit figures don’t take investment into account, says energy industry
• The BBC discusses changes in the sun – and why they don’t mean an ice age is on the way
• How a definition change lifts households out of fuel poverty
• The battle of Balcombe, misinformation and not much on climate change: a week in shale gas
• What makes ice sheets grow and shrink?
• Consumers don’t believe the government can keep decarbonisation costs under control
• How to encourage community engagement with mid-size ‘local energy’ projects
• There’s no such thing as domestic climate policy: An interview with John Ashton
• A people’s history of shale gas: How the media story moved from myth to reality
• Diesel generation won’t be used as renewables backup, despite critics’ claims
• Reflections on a changing Arctic: Less ice means faster warming
• Does new research explain the link between climate change and conflict, or show how hard that is to do?
• Knock-on effects for wildlife as the Arctic loses ice

July 2013

• Checking five claims in The Sun’s ‘vision’ of Britain’s energy sector
• Burn now, pay later – today’s emissions lock in long term sea level rise
• Fuel poverty policy is ‘frozen’, says parliamentary committee. Can the government fix it?
• Scientists mull slow carbon loss from Arctic permafrost
• The Energiewende and energy prices: Public support and Germany’s long term vision
• Government en route to failure on fuel poverty targets and energy efficiency
• The Energiewende: Transforming Germany’s energy sector
• Taking Earth’s temperature: Three Met Office reports examine the warming pause, climate sensitivity and taking a broad view of climate change
• UK’s energy sector still dependent on high carbon imports
• How likely is a huge Arctic methane pulse? We find disagreement among scientists
• The Energiewende: An introductory look at Germany’s energy transformation
• Lost in translation: Scientific uncertainty and belief in climate change
• Scientists examine how Africa’s rainforests will fare as the climate changes
• Fuels with benefits: paying communities to host new energy infrastructure
• Osborne’s tax breaks unlikely to lead to shale gas bonanza
• DECC’s conflicting gas price projections
• Government fails to bring clarity to electricity market reforms
• Davey vs Neil: Two non-scientists discuss climate change on the Sunday Politics show
• Stable energy prices and no energy efficiency: A closer look at Npower’s energy bill estimates
• Each degree of warming raises sea levels 2.3 metres in the long run, says study
• Future demand for water a more certain threat to agriculture than changes in rainfall
• The science of fracking and earthquakes
• European Commission will decide fate of UK’s new nuclear ambition
• Assessing where to safely store carbon dioxide: It’s all about the rock
• Carbon dioxide makes trees thriftier with water
• The UK’s agriculture, coastline and natural habitats are all threatened by climate change – so what’s the government’s response?
• Changing the baseline – a look at how we measure Arctic sea ice
• Lord Lawson’s shale gas boosterism
• New study offers different take on the future of tropical cyclones
• Three future energy megatrends, but where’s climate change?
• WMO report finds a decade of climate extremes
• Communicating the risks and uncertainties of climate change at the science and technology committee
• How PCC complaints on climate and energy are won and lost
• Are temperature targets fit for purpose?
• UK shale gas unlikely to bring down gas prices in short term, say experts
• Government report says adaptation has benefits, but the risks of climate change are still the main issue
• Fracking London? Not as bizarre as it sounds
• Scientists unveil new and improved El Niño forecasts
• Peat, windfarms and wild lands: does wind power reduce emissions in Scotland?
• Onshore wind subsidy increase could only be short term, as renewables strike prices announced
• Economic stagnation should not be an excuse for climate inaction

June 2013

• Will Britain really have blackouts and power rationing? Or not?
• British Geological Survey warns on the dangers of confusing shale gas resources with reserves
• Carbon Briefing: Britain’s shale gas
• The Committee on Climate Change’s fifth progress report, in more detail
• Obama’s ‘all of the above’ climate action plan sidesteps Congress to force US action
• Is more solar power a problem for the grid? No, says the Grid
• Is there electric light at the end of the Channel tunnel?
• Busting the myths about climate migration
• Obama can hide his climate policy from Congress, but he can’t run away forever
• Climate policy in the Economist: Why ‘wait and see’ doesn’t cut it
• The question Horizon missed: What might UK shale gas mean for greenhouse gas emissions?
• International Energy Agency: No gas revolution before 2020
• EU committee passes backloading compromise – but has the measure lost its teeth?
• What climate change means for vulnerable communities, and what that could mean for us
• Trust and balance: Why it’s so hard to communicate climate change
• Umbrellas at the ready: Can the UK really expect washout summers for a decade?
• Capacity markets, old coal and a decarbonisation target (again): It’s time for the energy bill, round two
• David Rose’s latest mash up of Met Office weather and climate research
• Has the Sunday Telegraph revealed the ‘true cost’ of windfarms?
• Can real-time climate data help avert disasters?
• Understanding Cuadrilla’s shale gas predictions
• Warming ocean is biggest driver of Antarctic ice shelf melt, says new study
• A climate debate beyond windfarms: engaging the centre-right on climate change
• Soil carbon makes biomass calculations even more complicated
• Three reasons not to get too excited about the UK’s shale oil and gas prospects
• Meet Sir Robert Smith, interim chair of the ECC Committee
• MPs don’t plan to cut electricity demand by a quarter by 2020
• Owen Paterson swims against the tide of scientific opinion on climate change
• Three charts showing why the world needs to take climate change action now
• Reconciling the science, economics and policy of climate sensitivity: would a lower value buy us more time?
• Researcher: Forget trading numbers over energy bill savings; the government needs to build fairness into energy policies
• Using CCS to cut emissions is a good idea, but we need to find out if it works first
• What do the government’s new onshore windfarm rules actually mean?
• The Sunday Times and the strikingly similar ‘dash for gas’ research
• What’s new on ice sheet melt?
• So the 2030 decarbonisation target didn’t pass – what now?