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Today's climate and energy headlines:
- Iraq's civil war threatens structure of global energy supply for years
- Soaring energy bills push record number of families into 'fuel poverty'
- Climate change to almost triple risk of extreme Indian Ocean weather events
- Could attracting more women into the energy sector help drive decarbonisation?
- Obama's Record on Climate Change Ain't Over Till It's Over
- Which Western energy giants are most exposed to risk by their investments in Russia?
- A salty start to modern ocean circulation
- Changes in precipitation pattern and risk of drought over India in the context of global warming
News.
Advances by Jihadi forces across northern Iraq have raised
the prospect of a Sunni-Shia conflict in the Middle East, with
fears this could trigger a surge in oil prices, reports the
Telegraph. As Brent crude jumped above $113 a barrel – approaching
levels last seen during the Arab Spring – sectarian civil war could
throw into doubt the structure of global energy supply for the next
decade, the piece warns. The Financial Timeslooks at how
the developments have investors worried, while City AMargues shale gas will be a
vital tool in defending the UK’s long-term energy
security.
Climate and energy news.
Standing at more than a million, the number of fuel poor
households with dependent children is higher than at any time in
the past decade, reports the Telegraph. New government statistics
show one in ten households are now classified as fuel poor – a
number that is forecast to rise this year, reports The Independent. Though the statistics
suggest the total number of people living in fuel poverty dropped
slightly in 2012 compared to the previous year, the government is
coming under increasing criticism over its handling of energy
efficiency policies, reports BusinessGreen.
Climate and energy comment.
BusinessGreen asks whether a new government campaign designed
to bolster the number of women working in the energy industry could
succeed in driving forward the transition to lower carbon energy.
Conservative energy minister Baroness Verma, a founder of the
campaign, said that just 12.8 per cent of jobs in the energy sector
are currently held by women, with an even smaller proportion of
women on executive boards.
President Barack Obama may be ahead of his predecessors in
the climate legacy race after proposing new rules to limit power
plant emissions last week, but he could still easily lose, says
Eric Roston for Bloomberg.
Greenpeace Energydesk has developed an interactive map of all
the current and planned oil and gas ventures in the former soviet
power. Anglo-Dutch Royal Dutch Shell, US’ Exxon Mobil and Total all
have stakes in current fossil fuel extraction in Russia. Exxon
Mobil also have plans to collaborate with Russia’s gas giant
Gazprom.
New climate science.
Scientists have discovered a relationship between climate
change and ocean currents over the past six million years after
analysing an area of the Atlantic near the Strait of Gibraltar,
according to research published today in the journal
Science.
Between 1951 and 2010, prolonged dry spells increased in
India by 49 per cent for each degree increase in global mean
temperature, according to a new paper. That works out as about a 50
per cent increase in the occurrence of drought per degree
temperature rise.