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More ice than last year is still bad news for the Arctic
Compared to last year, this summer's Arctic melt season has been less severe - leading some people to claim sea ice is rebounding from decades of thinning and shrinking. But as a look at satellite...
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Green Tories launch fightback against climate sceptics The Guardian reports that: "Tory campaigners on climate change are embarking on a fightback against sceptics on the right of the party who have...
View ArticleCost of climate deal delay comparable to the financial crisis, researchers say
The costs of delaying climate action could be equivalent to the financial crisis, a new paper warns. Each year, world leaders meet to try and agree new targets to prevent the world from warming by no...
View ArticleBoris's quick fix energy policy will only take a decade to kick in
Noted empiricist, Boris Johnson, has been known to pen a comment or two on the subject of climate change after a glance out of the window. This weekend, after spying wind turbines through the...
View ArticleScientists take the Mail on Sunday to task over claim that warming is half...
The Mail on Sunday yesterday claimed the international climate community is conceding the world hasn't warmed as much since the middle of last century as previously thought. We ask climate scientists...
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Satellites confirm humans are the main cause of temperature rise
Compare satellite records of temperatures over the last few decades with multiple simulations from the latest generation of climate models, and one thing is clear - warming near the earth's surface...
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Sir David King warns against fracking Sir David King, former chief scientific adviser to the government, has warned of the "enormous environmental consequences" of attempting to fulfil the UK's gas...
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Fugitive shale gas emissions can be kept low, says new study, at a cost
Shale gas supporters see it as the key to a clean energy future, while critics claim the production process makes it dirtier than coal. So fracking fans - among them the Prime Minister and Mayor of...
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A pre-IPCC recap of the links between extreme weather and climate change
With just over a week to go until the UN's new climate report is released, media stories are beginning to be written anticipating the report, and a series of leaks from the notoriously leaky review...
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$2 trillion a year cost to limit global warming A new report from the Imperial College's Grantham Institute for Climate Change estimates that keeping global temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius...
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Less than one meter or up to two? Predicting sea level rise in the 21st century
Leaked versions of the UN's coming climate report suggest the forecast for sea level rise will be higher than previously thought. According to a new article in the journal Nature, the report could...
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Arctic sea ice shrinks to sixth-lowest extent on record The annual sea ice minimum is expected to be officially declared by the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre within the next few day, the...
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Poll appears to show growth in climate skepticism - but what kind is it?
Humans are complicated beings. Nowhere is this more obvious than when examining polling results, and sometimes pollsters' questions don't bring out the most coherent answers. This morning, the Times...
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Fracking opponents are 'eco-freaks', says Ukip Climate change is a "non-problem", UKIP's Roger Helmer will tell its party conference today. He also likes fracking, and doesn't like Caroline Lucas....
View ArticleUKIP’s energy policy: Lots of fracking, little evidence base
UKIP is ready to put the party into party conference, meeting today to celebrate its 20th anniversary at a time when it's flying high in the polls. In preparation for the revelry, the party's energy...
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Cleaner air from tackling climate change 'would save millions of lives' Tackling climate change would save millions of lives a year by the end of the century purely as a result of the decrease in air...
View ArticleUK media gear up for major climate report
With a week until the UN's climate body releases its new report on how and why the climate is changing, the media are limbering up in anticipation. Here's a quick look at who saying what. Although the...
View ArticleDaily climate and energy links - 24th September 2013
UN's top climate guy to step down Rajendra Pachauri, the 73-year-old Indian leading the U.N.'s climate science arm, tells German newspaper Der Speigel he plans to step down from his position in...
View ArticleMethane reserves: Does size really matter?
Size isn't everything when it comes to the stores of methane locked up in the earth. A recent paper warns a sudden release of these resources could exact a terrible economic and humanitarian cost. But...
View ArticleDaily climate and energy links - 25th September 2013
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...
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