Daily Briefing |
TODAY'S CLIMATE AND ENERGY HEADLINES
Expert analysis direct to your inbox.
Every weekday morning, in time for your morning coffee, Carbon Brief sends out a free email known as the “Daily Briefing” to thousands of subscribers around the world. The email is a digest of the past 24 hours of media coverage related to climate change and energy, as well as our pick of the key studies published in peer-reviewed journals.
Sign up here.
Today's climate and energy headlines:
- Hopes for strong 2015 climate deal fade, as risks grow
- Power crisis risk 'worse than feared' this winter, SSE warns
- Britain's energy security at risk due to slow pace of fracking, firms warn
- Power costs shrink as share of Europe's rising energy bills
- China says rich nations should give more to offset climate change
- Sounding the alarm : Columbia Journalism Review
- New Video: Mann and Rahmstorf on IPCC 2013
- Explainer: what is climate sensitivity?
- Global map provides new insights into land use
- Where to find 1.5 million yr old ice for the world's oldest ice core
News.
Concern over economic growth risks at least partially eclipsing
scientists’ warnings of rising temperatures and water levels in the
upcoming international climate negotiations.
Climate and energy news:.
Power company SSE has warned that the risk of power shortages this
winter is higher than government and the National Grid have
projected. But it also says that “Britain would not face blackouts
‘unless National Grid really cocks up quite badly’ as it had
measures to manage demand, such as asking industrial sites to
switch off.”
The chief executive of shale gas company Cuadrilla has “poured
scorn on suggestions that Britain’s energy needs could be met
without drawing on its vast reserves of shale oil and gas”, in
evidence to a Parliamentary committee.
“Europeans are paying the steepest energy bills in four years and
face ever higher payments as governments pile on extra charges to
help finance a 1 trillion euro ($1.4 trillion) modernisation of
Europe’s energy infrastructure.”
China’s lead climate negotiator has said rich countries need to
give more money to address climate change, ahead of climate talks
in Warsaw.Lucy Hornbyu, The Financial Times
Climate and energy comment:.
An interview with Chris Mooney of Climate Desk about how news
organisations are working together to cover climate science, and
how other parts of the media are missing the story.
A video introduction to the latest climate science report from the
IPCC explores what’s in the report, and how the media covered
it.
New climate science:.
Humans are emitting CO2 and other greenhouse gases into the
atmosphere. As these gases build up they trap extra heat and make
the climate warmer. But how much warmer?
Scientists have created a new world map of different land use
systems in order to assess humans’ impact on the environment. From
a climate perspective, having a clear idea of what land is used for
helps scientists determine how much atmospheric carbon is being
locked away.
The world’s oldest ice sheet is most likely to exist in the
plateau area of the East Antarctic ice sheet, containing
information about earth’s climate dating back 1.5 million
years.