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What hockey stick graphs can tell us about recent climate change
Scientists have shown for the first time that global temperature has risen faster in the past century than since the end of the last ice age 11,300 years ago. What's more, by the end of the century,...
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Fukushima disaster: Long road to nuclear clean-up The BBC takes look round the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, where an earthquake triggered a meltdown two years ago. Meanwhile, more than...
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Coal's €42 billion health toll
Emissions from coal power plants are seriously bad for your health, according to new research. European medical NGO the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) says European governments are spending...
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Climate Change Is the Biggest Threat in the Pacific, Says Top U.S. Admiral The greatest long-term threat to East Asia and the Pacific Ocean is climate change, according to the admiral in charge of...
View ArticleAsk the scientists: Are rainforests resilient to climate change?
Is climate change bad for rainforests or not? Two scientific papers have suggested these important carbon sinks may be less vulnerable to rising temperatures than previously thought. With some parts...
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EU seeks binding emissions target debate The EU is set to review whether it should continue to set legally binding emissions targets, according to a draft paper on the EU's future climate and energy...
View ArticleNew government research adds to biomass emissions controversy
Government research examining emissions from biomass power generation seems unlikely to settle arguments over how polluting it is. But as campaigners and industry continue to argue about whether...
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Fracking company shelves drilling Cuadrilla has pushed back plans to extract shale gas because of migrating birds that use the area. Chief executive Francis Egan said yesterday the company is unlikely...
View ArticleWhat do climate policies mean for social justice?
A new report claims the government has significantly overestimated the benefits lower-income households will reap from its blend of climate policies. It says the price impact of placing the additional...
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More than 1,800 green deal assessments lodged in first month Green Deal providers have carried out more than 1,800 assessments on homes since the policy launched earlier this year. BusinessGreen/The...
View ArticleThe rhetoric of clean energy
What does clean coal mean? What makes a wind farm clean, or a coal plant dirty? When is nuclear power, or shale gas, dirty, or clean? The concept of cleanliness plays a fundamental role in discussion...
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The Press Association: UK should use natural gas - report The UK should use shale gas to help cut carbon emissions, but it will require carbon capture and storage technology beyond 2030 and may not...
View ArticleUS climate regulation: the bets are on
Ever since Barack Obama hinted at bypassing the Republican-dominated US Congress to achieve national action on climate change in his State of the Union speech, commentators have speculated as to how...
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Move to drop debate on climate change in schools faces backlash Plans to remove the climate debate from geography lessons for under 14s have been strongly criticised by green and student groups. Leo...
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Climate change experts suppor shale gas with caveats
The UK should go ahead with fracking for shale gas in order to reduce emissions from the energy sector, according to media reports on a study by leading climate change experts. But it turns out not to...
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Scientists set straight Mail on Sunday's latest climate contortion
Why does the Mail on Sunday claim that recent measurements of global temperature provide "irrefutable evidence that official predictions of global climate warming have been catastrophically flawed"?...
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New nuclear power plant at Hinkley Point C is approved Energy Secretary Ed Davey told MPs in the House of Commons yesterday that he was granting planning consent for French energy giant EDF to...
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Energy return on investment - which fuels win?
The days of easy to extract fossil fuels are numbered. Companies are using more energy-intensive methods to get to conventional fossil fuels, and turning to harder-to-extract fuels such as shale gas....
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Budget 2013: Osborne promises boost for 'low carbon' fossil fuels Tax breaks for shale gas, no fuel levy and funding for carbon capture and storage: a rundown of the highlights from yesterday's budget...
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Energy bills to rise £100 next winter, official forecasts suggest Wholesale gas and electricity price rises will help to push household energy bills up by a further £100 next year. Charges on energy...
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