Energy firms declare war over Ed Miliband's fuel
freeze
Business leaders have reacted with alarm to Labour leader
Ed Miliband's plan to freeze gas and electricity prices until 2017.
Miliband was speaking at the party's conference in Brighton
yesterday.
Guardian
Climate & energy news:
Donors help reopen axed Australian climate
watchdog
An independent Australian climate change watchdog axed last
week by the country's new conservative government was resurrected
yesterday as a non-profit body funded by public
donations.
Associated Press/Fox News
Lagarde says IMF work can contribute to
environmental change
International Monetary Fund head Christine Lagarde has
claimed the organisation can help tackle climate change. Speaking
at the UN yesterday, she highlighted how an analysis of the harmful
effects of energy subsidies could act as a catalyst for
action.
Reuters
Reforms urged to make UN climate reports shorter,
more focused
Climate experts on a UN panel should focus more on shorter
reports on specialist subjects such as extreme weather in a shift
from sweeping overviews of the kind being prepared this week in
Stockholm, many scientists and governments say.
Reuters
Lord Stern: IPCC report will underestimate climate
change
Economist Lord Stern has said the IPCC underestimates
impacts such as the melting of frozen Arctic soil. Speaking at an
event, he said while the IPCC report is nonetheless clear that the
risks are "immense", economic models "grossly underestimate" the
effects of climate change.
Telegraph
Climate & energy comment:
Caroline Flint MP's speech to Labour Party Annual
Conference 2013
Shadow energy secretary Caroline Flint's speech to the
Labour party conference yesterday, focusing on energy bills, though
she also highlights 'clean' energy, and climate change gets a
mention too.
Is Natural Gas 'Clean'?
Natural gas is cleaner than coal, but Mark Bittman warns
that the situation is "too dire" even to use gas as a bridge fuel
to increased renewables on the grid, given that the next IPCC
report looks set to vastly limit the amount of carbon humans can go
on adding to the air.
New York Times
Investors need to get off the fence on climate
change
In the run up to the IPCC's assessment report, Ian Simm,
asks investors to get up to speed with climate change, saying they
are well placed to incorporate its findings into scenario
planning.
Guardian
Paper review: Miliband energy vow
debated
Ed Miliband's energy price freeze - bold, populist or a
return to the bad old 1970s? The BBC rounds up coverage of the
Labour leader's conference pledge.
BBC News
What 95% Certainty of Warming Means to
Scientists
Top scientists from a variety of fields say they are about
as certain that global warming is a real, man-made threat as they
are that cigarettes kill. Scientists explain why 95 per cent
certainty is the "gold standard" for evidence - and why saying
anything with 100 per cent certainty doesn't make
sense.
Associated Press
Energy costs - the hard choices to
come
Ed Miliband's comments on energy in his Labour party
conference speech on Tuesday have profound implications for policy,
writes Nick Butler.
Financial Times
Shale gas alone is not the answer - but neither is
renewable energy
The UK's priority should be to develop a low-carbon energy
mix - including shale gas, renewables and nuclear - while
encouraging growth from those industries, writes shadow energy
minister Tom Greatrex.
Guardian
Explainer: how to read an IPCC
report
A handy guide to the structure, content and language of the
coming IPCC report, giving context on how to understand features
such as expressions of uncertainty.
The Conversation
New climate science:
Arctic sea ice reaches minimum extent for
2013
The Met Office provides a short, succinct summary of this
year's melt season in the Arctic, explaining that cooler weather
prevented as much ice melting as last year.
Met Office
Antarctic ice-mass balance 2003 to
2012
Measurements collected by satellites as part of the Gravity
Recovery and Climate Experiment(GRACE)show the Antarctic ice sheet
lost 114 billion tonnes of ice per year between 2003 and 2012. This
mass loss from the ice sheet raises sea levels.
The Cryosphere
Enhancing learning, communication and public
engagement about climate change
A new study suggests that discussions about climate change
between communicators and educators should focus on solutions to
the problem, rather than the possible catastrophic
consequences.
Environmental Education Research
