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Visualising natural variation
A new analysis by Clara Deser and colleagues (accepted for Nature Climate Change), provides some fantastic visualisations of the crucial role of natural variability in how we will experience climate....
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What does the fall in US emissions mean
US carbon dioxide emissions fell to a 20-year low at the beginning of 2012, partly due to lower natural gas prices as a result of domestic production of shale gas - a fact that hasn't escaped the...
View ArticleClouding the issue: skeptics mistake clouds paper for proof of fringe climate...
New research monitoring cloud cover over the world's land areas for the last four decades agrees with previous studies indicating that the planet's tropical climate zones are expanding, and that...
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Small or far away? Telegraph twists wind farm visualisation story
The Telegraph is claiming that the body that oversees visualisations for new UK wind turbine developments has accepted that photographers are using "tricks" to make windfarms seem smaller. We...
View ArticleIce core record reconstructs temperatures on the Antarctic Peninsula
A study published in Nature last week documents temperature changes in the Antarctic Peninsula over the last 15,000 years - and predicts that if recent rapid warming continues, previously stable ice...
View ArticleArctic summer melt exceeds 2007 records
Last week, a number of institutions announced that sea ice in the Arctic had reached its lowest since satellite records began in 1979. The Danish Meteorological Institute, the Japan Aerospace...
View ArticleIs Tim Yeo right to say the ETS will allow airport expansion with no UK...
Energy and Climate Change (ECC) Committee chair Tim Yeo has argued that a third runway at London airport Heathrow will not lead to extra greenhouse gas emissions due to the aviation sector's inclusion...
View ArticleMethane deposits in Antarctica and more methane emitted from Arctic...
Two new research papers published today improve our understanding of the planet's methane emissions, and might raise worries about the role of the gas in warming the planet. The first suggests that...
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30-year temperature data shows the UK's warming in line with global trends
The UK Met Office has just released its latest 30-year climate average. Readings show the UK's annual mean temperature calculated over a thirty year time period has risen 0.52 degrees Celsius over the...
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Do we know when the Arctic will be sea ice-free?
Over the past week, news that sea ice extent has fallen to a new low according to satellite measurements has prompted speculation about how long it will be before the Arctic Ocean is completely free...
View ArticleWith an coalition fight brewing over energy policy, meet Owen Paterson, your...
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has a limited role in climate policy. Probably the most important part of Defra's climate remit is to manage the UK's flood defences....
View ArticleThe Carbon Briefing: Australia's punt on the EU ETS
Last week Australia and the European Commission announced they would begin linking emissions trading schemes (ETS) in two years' time. An emissions trading scheme sets a cap on carbon emissions,...
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Engineering earth's climate - feasible and affordable but not advisable
Artificially altering earth's climate - or geoengineering - might have found a new fan this weekend in the shape of Charles Clover, writing in the Sunday Times. While "blotting out the sun" might be...
View ArticleNew proof that wind turbines don't cause global warming
Two new studies have suggested that wind turbines have less of a warming impact on the temperature of the atmosphere than previous studies have suggested, unless deployed at a level that far exceeds...
View ArticleEurope's shale gas battles
With Lib Dems and the Conservatives reportedly at odds over the prospects for shale gas in the UK, it's worth remembering that there's also a political fight about shale gas going on at the European...
View ArticleTranscript - Newsnight on the Arctic
The following is a transcription of a feature on Arctic sea ice from the BBC2 program Newsnight on the 5th September 2012. The people referred to by their surnames are as follows: Jeremy Paxman:...
View ArticleBBC makes a locally-sourced meal of discussing Arctic sea ice melt
The BBC's fondness for pitting non-experts against each other over particularly complex areas of climate science reached surreal heights in a segment on Arctic sea ice loss on Newsnight last week. The...
View ArticleDECC's FOI treasuretrove
Besides revelations of climate change minister Greg Barker's links to a renewable energy executive, one of the most interesting documents Freedom of Information (FOI) discosures from the UK Department...
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Letter from the Committee on Climate Change on gas
The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) - the government's advisory body on climate targets - has today released a strongly worded letter criticising the government's "apparently ambivalent position"...
View ArticleGas price rises are slowing down, but don’t expect lower bills
Average consumer energy bills have remained largely unchanged over the past year, according to new figures from energy regulator Ofgem. But, as rising gas prices and the costs of upgrading the energy...
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