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Today's climate and energy headlines:
- Map reveals devastation if all the world's ice melted
- New forestry institute to study climate change impact
- Opec report highlights need for UK fracking
- Obama Administration Just Invested $84M In A Clean Coal Technology That Might Cause Earthquakes
- Global warming could lead to snakes as long as BUSES and horses shrinking to the size of CATS, scientists warn
- Centrica signs £4.4bn gas import deal with Qatar
- Welsh government's £48k wind turbine creates £5 of power a month
- More nukes? Are you kidding? Enviros push back against Hansen's call
- Chaos over 'green tax roll back' is creating investor hell
- Abundant fossil fuels leave clean energy out in the cold
- Myths And Facts About Nuclear Power
- Cosmic rays, solar activity and the climate
- Projected effects of declining aerosols in RCP4.5: unmasking global warming?
Climate & energy news:.
National Geographic has released a series of maps showing what an
ice-free world looks like.
A new £15 million institute has been created at the University of
Birmingham to study the relationship between climate change and the
spread of pests.
An OPEC report says no new sources of energy can be ignored in the
face of a looming global energy crunch. The Telegraph speculates
that the Chancellor will offer tax breaks to encourage oil and gas
exploration to boost the UK’s domestic supplies.
The US Department of Energy is investing in carbon capture and
storage technology to help the US reduce emissions from coal use.
Climate Progress says a number of reports find correlations between
injecting carbon dioxide into the ground and earthquakes,
however.
US researchers are warning of massive reptiles and shrinking
mammals if global warming takes hold, the Mail reports.
British Gas owner Centrica has signed a deal to import enough gas
from Qatar to power 3 million UK homes, the Telegraph
reports.
A wind turbine in Wales has been generating just £5 worth of
electricity per month, the BBC reports. The Welsh government says
the turbine has mechanical problems, but the turbine’s manufacturer
claims it was sited poorly. TheTelegraphalso has the story.
Climate & energy comment.
Environmental groups including the Sierra Club, National Resource
Defense Council and Greenpeace USA have hit out at a group of
scientists calling for an expansion of nuclear power.
The Guardian’s environment editor looks at the government’s
“inconsistent” messages on the future of green levies.
EnergyDesk’s editor argues that assumptions of rising energy
demand and technological advances in drilling have left
policymakers pursuing unconventional fossil fuels at the same time
as promoting renewables – two policies which “sit very poorly
together”.
Media Matters assesses some arguments over the expansion of
nuclear power, including whether or not it’s cheaper than renewable
energy.
New climate science:.
New research finds that neither changes in the activity of the
sun, nor its impact in blocking cosmic rays, can be a significant
contributor to global warming.
In one climate model projection using the IPCC’s low emissions
scenario, RCP4.5, temperatures are predicted to rise by around
2.3°C by the year 2100 – but 1.1°C of that warming is due to
reductions in aerosol emissions which currently cool the
planet.