Tidal lagoons: a guide for the confused
A " giant man-made lagoon" in Swansea bay could be used to generate electricity for 120,000 homes a year, if the government says yes to a new planning application. But what exactly is a tidal lagoon -...
View ArticleDaily climate and energy links - 10th February 2014
Get the daily briefing in your inbox at 9AM - click here to subscribe No pause in climate change as sea soaks up extra heat A new study suggests accelerated wind speeds have transferred heat into the...
View ArticleAnalysis: How climate change features in newspaper coverage of the UK’s floods
UK newspapers have consistently featured one story over the last 10 weeks: flooding. While scientists say climate change will increase the chance of flooding, our analysis shows there was relatively...
View ArticleMet Office spells out climate change link to UK flooding in four graphs
As flood waters continue to engulf parts of the UK this weekend, the Met Office released a report looking at whether climate change is playing a part in the exceptional weather. Chief scientist Julia...
View ArticleDaily climate and energy links - 11th February 2014
Get the daily briefing in your inbox at 9AM - click here to subscribe Doubt cast on forced sale of British Gas The energy secretary Ed Davey has warned British Gas could be broken up, if regulators...
View ArticleArctic: Melting ice and soft security
If you want an indication that US ambition in the Arctic has been limited, you could turn to the size of its icebreaker fleet. Russia, which sees exploiting the Arctic as vital to its national...
View ArticleFlooding crisis: What the papers say
It was Christmas when bad weather started to batter the UK. Weeks in, and with flood warnings affecting much of England, news coverage is turning to who, or what, is to blame. We check out what the...
View ArticleDaily climate and energy links - 12th February 2014
Get the daily briefing in your inbox at 9AM - click here to subscribe Linking the floods with climate change - and why it's important According to polls, people think the UK will suffer more flooding...
View ArticleDredging, drainage, and Defra: A flooding glossary
One story has dominated newspapers over the last couple of months: flooding. Since Christmas, the UK has been beset by storms and heavy rainfall, causing river banks to burst and journalists to go...
View ArticleNo economic case for reviewing carbon budget, says Committee on Climate Change
The UK stands to gain economically from reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the 2020s, argues government advisor the Committee on Climate Change - providing the government with no excuse for...
View ArticleDaily climate and energy links - 13th February 2014
Get the daily briefing in your inbox at 9AM - click here to subscribe Ed Davey attacks Tories on climate change In a speech to the Institute for Public Policy Research think-tank later today, energy...
View ArticleNatural gas emissions are being underestimated: new study
A new study threatens the conventional wisdom that natural gas emits half the greenhouse gases that coal does. The research, published in Science today, may have implications for plans to use shale...
View ArticleDaily climate and energy links 14 February 2014
Get the daily briefing in your inbox at 9AM - click here to subscribe Climate & Energy News Climate change is here now and it could lead to global conflict On the front page of the Guardian,...
View ArticleFloods have ended political debate about climate change impacts, argues...
Poor energy policy can "bring down governments" warned former energy minister Charles Hendry. That makes it a scary job for politicians naturally preoccupied with staying in power, particularly as...
View ArticleDespite the Guardian's front page, there's little evidence climate change...
Last Friday's Guardian carried a front page article by Lord Stern, author of the influential Stern report on the economics of climate change, warning that climate change could cause migration that...
View ArticleAnalysis: How UK newspapers are increasingly talking about climate change and...
Last week, we published a blog showing that only a small fraction - around seven per cent - of newspaper articles about flooding over the past two months had mentioned climate change. Over the past...
View ArticleDaily climate and energy links - 18th February 2014
Get the daily briefing in your inbox at 9AM - click here to subscribe Met Office science chief attacked for climate claim The Times quotes scientists who argue Dame Julia Slingo's comment that "all...
View ArticleMail on Sunday falsely claims Met office scientists disagree about climate...
The Mail on Sunday has claimed two high profile Met Office scientists disagree with each other on what's behind the recent exceptional weather in the UK. But the scientists involved say the newspaper...
View ArticleHow much flooding is in the UK’s future? A look ahead to the next IPCC report
From posing a threat to natural ecosystems to damaging business, property and livelihoods, a report due next month from the UN's official climate body reviews the wide-ranging damages extreme flooding...
View ArticleToo much water, or not enough: why climate change could be a threat to our...
It's 2035, and severe flooding has hit the country once again. As the waters inundate electricity substations, hundreds of thousands of homes suddenly lose power. Desperate customers try and telephone...
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