LINKS
to 2013 CLIMATE CHANGE & ENERGY news articles - collated by
Henry Adams
My Climate
Change & Energy
introductory web-page also has links: to websites and
selected
articles that give a background or priority over-view.
Also, as from 25jun13, see HERE for ref links on Energy Efficiency esp
buildings/properties/homes and Green Deal and alternatives and Fuel
Poverty.
Also see my page
of unsorted refs/links (all subjects mixed up but in approx
chronological order): http://www.dragonfly1.plus.com/UnsortedLINKS-2013.html
My archive LINKS.pdf
- to April 2013 (Jan-April overlap with present html page) -
warning: big file!
Which fossil fuel companies are most responsible for
climate change Duncan Clark & Kiln 20nov13 –
interactive Environment theguardian.com
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In approximate chronological order
(most recent
first); not fully comprehensive - just the selection I've spotted.
As Arctic ice melts, U.S. military adapting strategy,
forces Reuters
Co-op and Ecotricity fixed deals pile pressure on Big
Six 29nov13 Hilary Osborne Money theguardian.com
Dale Vince of ecotricity, Juliet Davenport of Good Energy, Ovo ... via
Gwen
Modest deal breaks deadlock at UN climate talks -
Yahoo News COP19 agreement to "contributions" rather than "commitments".
As Arctic ice melts, U.S. military adapting strategy,
forces 22nov13 Reuters
Chevron raises doubts over £6bn North Sea oil
project - FT.com 22nov13 Guy Chazan. "rising costs" given as
reason. Hooray! "Rosebank
is located about 130km northwest of the Shetland Islands in water
depths of about 1,100m. It is estimated to contain 240m barrels of oil.
It has been key to hopes for a revival of UK oil production, which has
fallen by 38 per cent over the past three years, costing the UK
Treasury up to £6bn in lower tax receipts, according to industry
estimates."
Inaction on climate change will increase civil unrest,
warn leading groups 21nov13 John Vidal Global
development theguardian.com
Environment Groups Walk Out Of Warsaw COP19 Climate
Change Talks 21nov13 DeSmogBlog
WWF - NGOs, Social Movements Walk Out Of Warsaw Talks
21nov13
Green groups to stage walk-out at UN climate talks
John Vidal 21nov13 Environment theguardian.com
Warsaw's widening climate chasm could lead to 4C
warming Graham Readfearn 21nov13
Environment theguardian.com
Polish 'Bad COP' feared after ministerial sacking
21nov13 EurActiv
**** DECC: Digest of UK Energy
Statistics 2013 - 25jul13 statistics_press_notice_2013 pdf <<<<<<<<<<<<
useful eg chart of elec gen by fuel type in 2012 & poss useful
reflinks
green jobs and ECO News - Cuts to ECO could lead to
thousands of green job losses before Christmas 19nov13
Norway’s SWF to divest from coal
Energi og Klima 4nov13
Climate Code Red Parts of Australia reaching threshold where it is
impossible for normal life to continue because of the heat, says
climate impacts researcher 17nov13 via Bankfield Becky Willis
Cicero - Global Carbon
Project - Study: World set for record 36 bn tonnes of CO2
emissions this year 19nov13 EurActiv Center
for International Climate and Environmental Research in Oslo (Cicero).
BANKS re CC: British banks among world's biggest lenders to coal
industry, report finds RBS
tops UK list with lending €5bn for coal-mining operations,
followed by Barclays and HSBC Fiona
Harvey 18non13 Environment theguardian.com via Gwen
tweet
Scientists expose coal industry’s false claims
about high efficiency coal No more room for new
unabated coal 18nov13 Europoean
Climate Foundation
UKERC Energy News Update 18nov13 incl FT re Drax - false
picture:
Drax powers a brighter future with biomass Michael Kavanagh 17nov13 - FT.com
Climate change crisis fund to assist poor countries
almost empty John Vidal
18nov13 Global development theguardian.com
UN climate chief says coal can be part of global
warming solution Adam Vaughan
& John Vidal 18nov13 Environment theguardian.com
Leave coal in the ground to avoid climate catastrophe,
UN tells industry 18nov13 John
Vidal & Graham Readfearn Environment The Guardian
Climate rallies held across Australia Labor
and Greens join firefighters and activists for Climate Action Day
protests against Coalition plan to repeal carbon tax 17nov13 World
news theguardian.com
Top lawyers demand urgent action on climate change
legislation - 15 Nov 2013 -
News from BusinessGreen
http://ecowatch.com/2013/11/11/global-warming-slowdown-attributed-to-phase-out-of-cfcs/
Developing countries unanimously call for loss and
damage mechanism at Warsaw Climate Conference as tragedy of super
Typhoon Haiyan unfolds
LDC Group at UN climate change
negotiations 11nov13 joint press release from the Least Developed
Countries, the Alliance of Small Island States, the Africa Group and
the G77/China negotiating blocs
Hebden
Bridge writer Rachel Tansey
exposes corporate capture of COP19
climate talks 14nov13 Upper Calder Valley Plain Speaker
http://www.rtcc.org/2013/11/12/un-climate-chief-defends-decision-to-attend-coal-summit-amid-youth-anger/
http://www.desmogblog.com/2013/09/18/poland-partners-coal-and-oil-corporate-sponsors-cop19-climate-conference
Extreme Weather Risk Index Unveiled at UN Climate Talks
12nov13 EcoWatch - which countries are suffering most?
*** Are
we on the verge of solving climate change 13nov13 Duncan
Clark Environment theguardian.com
http://www.carbon.coop/news/2013-11-14/decc-2050-calculator-manchester-hackday
Collapsing
Cooling Towers - YouTube -
ecotricity
IPCC corrects carbon figures in landmark UN climate
report 11nov13 Reuters
Environment theguardian.com
It's time to stop this madness - Philippines
plea at UN climate talks RTCC 11nov13
Typhoon Haiyan and climate change Q&A Damian
Carrington 11nov13 Environment theguardian.com
How energy companies make profit A closer look
at the data Mat Hope
Carbon Brief
Ed Davey public trust in energy companies is
breaking down Damian Carrington
11nov13 Environment
theguardian.com
Cameron's green levy threat 'devastating' energy
efficiency industry Damian
Carrington 11nov13 Environment theguardian.com
Leadership Lecture Deputy Prime Minister Nick
Clegg (with images, tweets)
· GreenAllianceUK · Storify
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/12/world/asia/typhoon-in-philippines-casts-long-shadow-over-un-talks-on-climate-treaty.html?hpw&rref=world&_r=3&
▶ Speech of Philippines delegate on hunger strike to
demand action on climate change
- YouTube
Philippines Negotiator Ties Massive Typhoon to Global
Warming and Pledges Hunger Strike at Warsaw Climate Talks 11nov13 EcoWatch
Gas industry employee seconded to draft UK's energy
policy Damian Carrington & Andrew Sparrow 10nov13
Environment The Guardian
Typhoon Haiyan influenced by climate change,
scientists say - in The Sydney
Morning Herald 11nov13
http://www.upworthy.com/everything-you-need-to-see-to-convince-you-that-climate-change-is-happening-in-14-seconds?c=ufb1
Five Insurance Companies Debunk Fox On Extreme Weather
Blog 4nov13 Media Matters for America
Revealed How Big Six energy firms conceal their
profits 9nov13 - Home News - UK
- The Independent "
Where are the energy companies making their profits
29oct13 Damian Kahya Greenpeace UK
Will
Straw, an associate director of the Institute for Public Policy
Research (IPPR) think-tank, said: “Why do they need to make a
profit of 5 or 6 per cent when the supermarkets can make do on as
little as 2 or 3 per cent? The retail profits they do make should be
ploughed back.” Dieter Helm, professor of energy policy at
Oxford University, said: “Why should retailing electricity
attract the sort of margins that supermarkets (with all their shops,
stocks and associated costs) cannot?” Ramsay Dunning, the
general manager of Co-operative Energy, one of Britain’s biggest
independent gas and electricity suppliers, goes one further, dismissing
talk of profits for investment as a “red herring” and
accusing Ms Knight of being “disingenuous” as the cost of
investment has already been accounted for. “She is
throwing mud into the water with that comment because the 4 to 5 per
cent number she is using is calculated after accounting for the cost of
investment,” he said. In other words, the notion that big profits
are needed to help fund investment is largely irrelevant because the
profit margins usually quoted by the Big Six already include investment
costs. ..... The energy company obligation (ECO)
– which requires the Big Six to better insulate the homes of
Britain’s poorest households – will add £47 a year,
or 4 per cent, to an expected average bill of £1,267 in 2013,
according to the Government. The warm home discount, which entitles
some vulnerable people to a £135 discount, adds another
£11. Meanwhile, the smart meter rollout will hike the average
bill by £3 this year. Dr Robert Gross, director of
the Centre of Energy and Technology at Imperial College London, said:
“We need much better transparency about profits and financial
flows between the retail and generation ends of the business. Because
these companies are ‘vertically integrated’ [generating and
selling the energy] it’s all very opaque.” "
Former UN climate chief 'Australia should send
minister to Warsaw talks'
8nov13 Adam Vaughan Environment theguardian.com
http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/analysis/2305409/uk-must-not-waver-on-carbon-budget-warns-committee-on-climate-changeGovernment
advisory body categorically rejects argument that UK's climate action
is ahead of other countries and disadvantaging businesses
Fossil fuel subsidies 'killing UK's low-carbon future'
John Vidal 7nov13 Environment theguardian.com
Fossil fuel subsidies costing rich countries $112 per
person - 07 Nov 2013 - News
from BusinessGreen ODI report Overseas Development
Institute "According
to the International Energy Agency, global fossil fuel subsidies
totalled $523bn in 2011 - almost six times the amount given to
renewable energy."
Fossil Fuels Receive $500
Billion A Year In Government Subsidies Worldwide 7nov13 ThinkProgress re ODI report
industry-warns-green-levy-review-is-having-devastating-impact-on-eco-insulators
Hitting EU green energy goals 'would save billions,
boost GDP' - Reuters News - Point Carbon by reducing health costs
etcEconomist
Debates Solar energy Statements
*** cop19_guide_to_corporate_lobbying-with_references
pdf
Economic crisis not the main cause of the EU's CO2
drop, researchers say
31oct13 EurActiv
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/environment-secretary-owen-paterson-has-yet-to-be-briefed-on-climate-change-by-chief-scientist-sir-ian-boyd-8912738.html
30oct13
EU environment ministers call for 'ambitious' 2030
climate goals 28oct13
Environment theguardian.com
Investors
demand fossil fuel giants assess climate risks - 25 Oct 2013 - News
from BusinessGreen -
Carbon Tracker & Ceres urge... but
behind paywall
BBC coverage criticised for favouring climate change
sceptics 28oct13 Fiona
Harvey The Guardian
Do Britain's energy firms serve the public interest
26oct13 Will Hutton and Philip Booth Comment is
free The Observer
INDONESIA
COAL: Coal seen rebounding in China on RI curbs
The Jakarta Post 7nov13
Franke James -
Artist Blacklisted by Canada Over Criticism of Climate Policy Takes
Show to U.S. InsideClimate News
How Deadly Is Your Kilowatt We Rank The Killer
Energy Sources - Forbes 6oct12
But
an energy’s
deathprint, as it is called, is rarely discussed. The deathprint
is the
number of people killed by one kind of energy or another per kWhr
produced and,
like the carbon footprint, coal is the worst and wind and nuclear are
the best.
3 Reasons Germans Are Kicking Ass & Taking Names
With Renewable Energy
CleanTechnica <<<< excellent pie chart of German power sources
Fuel price rises are sparking a new wave of direct
action 18oct13 Ewa Jasiewicz
Comment is free The Guardian
How David Cameron's energy reforms put my gas bill up
583% Donnachadh McCarthy 25oct13
theguardian.com clear price British Gas Centrica standing charges
Is there any way to bring down our fuel bills
25oct13 - UK Politics - UK - The Independent
FoE (Simon Bullock) adds to the
above 2
reports, re: 'Unburnable coal, oil… and gas.' 25oct13
Friends of the Earth
#2030decarb
Lord
Deben blasts Tory Twitter account Storytracker
PoliticsHome
The real solution to rocketing energy bills
26oct13 Donna Hume Left Foot Forward
Lord Oxburgh Why we need a decarbonisation target
25oct13 House Magazine PoliticsHome
Clegg's warning on green levy is right
24oct13 Friends of the Earth
http://www.euractiv.com/science-policymaking/leaked-memo-threatens-european-c-news-531232
Green trade bodies press peers to back decarbonisation
target - 24 Oct 2013 - News from BusinessGreen
Lord Stern leads latest push for Energy Bill
decarbonisation target - 22 Oct 2013 - News from BusinessGreen
FoE briefing document re Energy Bill
& 2030 decarb target: energy_2030_decarb.pdf September 2013
Monsanto Big data lets global corps bet on the threat of
climate change 24oct13 via Gwen tweet: @harrison_gwen Looks like Monsanto's
new game will increase no. of people with a vested interest in
continued climate instability:
Clear link between climate change and bushfires
UN adviser warns Tony Abbott 22oct13
Revealed the 185 big companies that are failing
the planet - Rob Edwards 20oct13
Jumpers, petitions and the only way to tackle rising
energy bills- Businessgreen mobile 18oct13
Infographic What British Gas says is pushing up
bills and why it doesn't make much sense 17oct13 Greenpeace
UK ECO etc http://www.fabians.org.uk/the-price-hikers-guide-to-energy/
http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20131016/behind-russia-vs-greenpeace-furor-unreported-oil-pollution-arctic 16oct13
#2030decarb
Friends of the Earth Sign Ali's letter to the Lords Climate
Change Campaign Actions 15oct13
****Osborne plan to cut energy efficiency funds for fuel
poor is 'unforgivable' 11oct13 Damian Carrington
theguardian.com Government's
own adviser on fuel poverty says chancellor's attack on Energy Company
Obligation is 'completely inequitable' Derek Lickorish, chair of the
government's Fuel
Poverty Advisory Group, said:
"It is completely inequitable to attack the only measure that is doing
something for the fuel poor in England. It is unforgivable when we have
energy prices that are going only in one direction." In a
letter to No 10, the Treasury and energy departments, seen by the
Guardian, Lickorish labels the cuts "perverse", arguing that the
fastest and cheapest way of reducing energy bills is through better
insulation of the UK's ageing and draughty housing stock. On
Friday the business secretary, Vince Cable, said it would be
"short-sighted and foolish" to ditch green levies that make up just
under 10% of the average bill. ...
CEO of SSE, Alistair Phillips-Davies, that his company's 8.2%
price hike announced on Thursday ...Phillips-Davies told
the Daily Telegraph: ..."We need to think about what people really
want to pay for; maybe it's time to retreat
from decarbonisation and focus more on the cost of living. I
think we have to have a debate about it.
Will a gas oven be cheaper than electric? -
Telegraph
GAS: Britain 'risks blackouts in run-up to next election'
- Telegraph (therefore beware of motives!)
‘Science is not finished until it’s
communicated’ - UK chief scientist 3oct13 RTCC - Walport
actually says some right things for a change.
Shetland windfarm project suffers court setback over
rare bird 3oct13 UK news The Guardian Re whimbrel
Ocean acidification due to carbon emissions is at
highest for 300m years 3oct13 Fiona Harvey The Guardian re
the report
by the International
Programme on the State of the Ocean (IPSO).
http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2298960/fresh-coalition-battle-looms-over-attempts-to-water-down-low-carbon-policies
The BBC betrayed its values by giving Professor Carter
this climate platform John Ashton 1oct13 Comment
is free The Guardian "In
2011 the BBC Trust invited Prof Steve Jones of University College
London toreview
the impartiality and accuracy of the BBC's science coverage.
In the case of climate change, Jones found that there had indeed been a
tendency towards "false impartiality … too often, bodies it
turns to in such discussions have a social and political rather than a
scientific agenda". David
Jordan, the BBC's head of editorial standards, ...So
why did Jordan go to the trouble of repudiating him?[Jones] Could it
have anything to do with the "long meetings" about climate change he
revealed he had recently conducted with Lord Lawson and Peter Lilley,
both well known for their lack of scientific credentials and their
robust critiques of the views the IPCC has now endorsed?
For scientists in a democracy, to dissent is to be
reasonable 30sep13 George Monbiot Comment is
free The Guardian re eg Professor
Ian Boyd,
chief scientific adviser at the UK's Department for Environment. &
eg planet-wrecking
programmes. The latest is the Centre
for Doctoral Training in Oil and Gas,
just launched by the Natural Environment Research Council. Its aim is
"to support the oil and gas sector" by providing "focused training" in
fracking, in exploiting tar deposits, and in searching for oil in polar
regions. In other words, it is subsidising fossil fuel companies while
promoting climate change.
‘Climate change People get very emotional
about the subject. It’s not all bad’ Owen Paterson
accused of being irresponsible after he plays down the dangers of
global warming - UK Politics - 1oct13
'Carbon budget' talks urgent, warns Lord Stern
29sep13 Environment The Guardian
I don't want UK to be at forefront of tackling climate
change, says Osborne 28sep13 Environment
theguardian.com
The
5 Most Sobering Charts from the IPCC Climate Report
Climate Central
The IPCC climate-change report It's still our
fault The Economist 27sep13
New IPCC report Executive Summary September 2013 IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change 5th report
IPCC report The financial markets are the only
hope in the race to stop global warming - Climate Change -
Environment - The Independent 27sep13
What effect will the IPCC report have on UN climate
negotiations 30sep13
Climate change Try catastrophic climate breakdown The
message from the IPCC report is familiar and shattering: it's as bad as
we thought it was 27sep13 The Guardian Monbiot
Five things we've learned from the IPCC on climate
change Greenpeace UK 27sep13 5AR
Study Warns Against China's Synthetic Natural Gas
Plants Environment Nature World News
25sep13 COAL GAS ! gas from coal is insane.
SOLAR: Researchers Just Hit A New World Record In Solar Cell
Efficiency 26sep13 ThinkProgress
Astronomer royal calls for 'plan B' to prevent runaway
climate change Science The Guardian Lord
Rees on geo-engineering. In my mind - and absolute last resort and now
a distraction.
More on the Anglo-German conundrum
Political Climate
Children will bear brunt of climate change impact, new
study says Environment The Guardian
www.treehugger.com/wind-technology/dutch-wind-turbine-crowdfunded-just-13-hours.html
Tony Abbott's warfare against action on climate change
has started Mark Dreyfus Comment is
free theguardian.com
Renationalisation call to Labour - by Dale Vince
Ecotricity ReNews - Renewable Energy News via Becky Willis
renews.biz/50252/ecotricity-tariff-undercuts-big-six/
Carbon Commentary · Labour’s price cap proposals for UK energy
25sep13 Chris Goodall via Beecky Willis
Energy giants will blink first in Miliband's price
freeze challenge Damian Carrington 25sep13
Environment theguardian.com
**** The triple benefit of an ambitious energy efficiency
programme green
alliance blog "DECC
estimates that the right investment in energy efficiency by 2020 could
prevent 22 new power stations being built." = article also within:
*** Major fossil fuel reserves must be left in the ground,
senior diplomat [Mary Robinson] warns 23sep13 Fiona Harvey
Environment The Guardian
*****Green Alliance: Green social
democracy: better homes in better places http://www.green-alliance.org.uk/uploadedFiles/Publications/reports/Green%20social%20democracy.pdf includes: Why we haven’t
bothered with energy efficiency
and how to change that - John Alker - Director of policy and
communications, UK Green Building Council
Rt
Hon Ed Miliband MP
Leader of the Labour Party Michael Jacobs Visiting professor,
Department of
Political Science, University College London Professor Anne Power Head,
LSE
Housing and Communities Will Straw Associate
director for climate change, energy and transport, IPPR John Alker
Director of
policy and communications, UK Green Building
Council Rebecca Willis Independent researcher and Green Alliance
associate Ed
Wallis Head of editorial, Fabian Society Hugh Ellis Chief planner, Town
and Country
Planning Association Chi Onwurah MP for Newcastle upon Tyne Central and shadow Cabinet Office minister Shaun
Spiers Chief executive, Campaign to Protect Rural England
Coalition scraps Climate Commission, dispensing with
Tim Flannery
Environment theguardian.com 19sep13
Lord Lawson's climate-change think tank risks being
dismantled after complaint it persistently misled public - Climate
Change 14jun13 - Environment - The Independent "Since
Lord Lawson launched the Global
Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) in November 2009 it has
“persistently disseminated inaccurate and misleading information
about climate change as part of its campaign against climate policies
in the UK and overseas,” the complaint alleges. The use of
factually inaccurate material without a legitimate basis in science is
an abuse of the foundation’s charitable status, which is all the
more reprehensible because the public is more trusting of
pronouncements made by charities, according to the complaint, filed by
Bob Ward, head of policy at the Lord Stern’s Grantham Institute
and a former communications director at the Royal Society."
7sep13 Australia: nad news for climate as conservative (called
'Liberal' down under) Tony Abbott wins victory today
Australia's federal election just couldn't face up to
climate change 5sep13 Graham Readfearn
Environment theguardian.com
Naomi Klein Earth Island
Journal Earth Island Institute
CCS: Great review compilation of global major CCS projects by Scottish
Centre for CCS, includes Norway Statoil Sleipner project http://carbcap.geos.ed.ac.uk/website/publications/sccs-wp/wp-2010-03.pdf
- via MBLee & DC book The Burning Question
Berliners' co-op aims to take over and run electricity
grid of city 28aug13 Guardian - via Gwen tweet
***** RBS carbon emissions up to 1,200 times higher than
reported figure 27aug13 Miriam Ross WDM
OCEAN ACIDIFICATION: Scientists analyze the effects of ocean acidification
on marine species 25aug13 ScienceDaily
LA Times - Carbon cycle gets more extreme as climate changes
Plan seeks 'chaperones' for threatened species
9aug13 Botanical
gardens proposed as stopping-off points for plant species as climate
warms. Nature News & Comment
Rebranding Climate Change as a Public Health Issue
TIME.com
Fox News found to be a major driving force behind
global warming denial Dana Nuccitelli
Environment theguardian.com
Goldman Sachs Finds 'Window For Profitable Investment
In Coal Mining Is Closing', Ditto For Coal Exports
ThinkProgress 8aug13
Top U.S. admiral cites climate change, not China, as
biggest Pacific security threat - Washington Times 11mar13
Are we too hooked on oil to face the consequences of
our addiction 8aug13 Guardian Sustainable
Business Guardian Professional via Gwen
Sea Level Rise 'Locking In' Quickly, Cities Threatened
29jul13 Climate Central
Arctic Sea Ice Loss Creates Ripple Effects
Scientific American 5aug13 http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=arctic-sea-ice-loss-creates-ripple-effects
Today's Climate Change Proves Much Faster Than Changes in Past 65
Million Years [refers to paper by Stanford Uni] Scientific
American By Anne
C. Mulkern and ClimateWire
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=todays-climate-change-proves-much-faster-than-changes-in-past-65-million-years
CHOICE: http://www.wdm.org.uk/climate-change/another-energy-future-possible
**** DIVESTMENT: Is it time to divest from fossil fuels
GreenBiz.com 2aug13
DIVESTMENT: HSBC BP, Shell, Statoil at risk from
'unburnable' reserves GreenBiz.com Will Nichols 30jan13
DIVESTMENT: pension funds: http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/pension-funds-climate-change-inaction?CMP=twt_gu
DIVESTMENT: churches: http://www.abc.net.au/environment/articles/2013/08/01/3816046.htm
DIVESTMENT: churches:
Church of England urged to use theology as motivation for fossil fuel
divestment - Blue and Green Tomorrow 8jul13 http://blueandgreentomorrow.com/2013/07/08/church-of-england-urged-to-use-theology-as-motivation-for-fossil-fuel-divestment/
http://www.rtcc.org/2013/08/02/ed-davey-dismisses-fracking-with-pledge-to-expand-renewables/
SOLAR: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/jul/26/summer-solar-power-photovoltaic-panels
https://www.transitionnetwork.org/blogs/rob-hopkins/2013-07/its-your-summer-reading-transition-infographic
http://dissidentvoice.org/2013/04/400000-hiroshima-atomic-bombs-per-day/
http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/latestnews/tabid/62/entryid/1335/two-energy-futures.aspx
http://www.climatecentral.org/news/sea-level-rise-locking-in-quickly-cities-threatened-16296
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/07/11/2289051/new-infographic-the-anti-science-climate-denier-caucus/
SHELL: http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/opinion/2284232/shell-refuses-to-save-the-arctic-but-its-customers-still-could
*** COMMUNITY ENERGY: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/more-community-energy-projects-to-get-support-under-feed-in-tariffs
We need a new Apollo mission to harness the sun’s power - FT.com
1aug13 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/71d11096-fa14-11e2-b8ef-00144feabdc0.html
via Gwen tweet
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/29/biggest-battery-energy-technology-trial
Don't underestimate rightwing desperation in media attacks on
greens Tom Burke Environment
guardian.co.uk Tom Burke 26jul13 http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/26/rightwing-desperation-media-attacks-greens
via Gwen
Voters think Republican climate dissenters 'crazy', bipartisan poll
finds Environment guardian.co.uk 25jul13 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/25/us-politics-climate-change-scepticism
Reuters' climate-change coverage 'fell by nearly 50% with sceptic as
editor' ?26jul13 http://m.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/26/reuters-climate-change-scepticism-coverage
Funny: http://www.upworthy.com/the-difference-between-global-warming-skeptics-and-normal-people?g=2
SCOTLAND: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-23428903
http://blogs.rgj.com/factchecker/2013/07/20/has-the-earth-not-warmed-in-past-decade/
**** DIVESTMENT: Fossil Free Analysts Fossil Fuel-Free Portfolios
Outperform Investments That Include Carbon Polluters - Fossil Free
17jul13 posted by Allyse http://gofossilfree.org/analysts-fossil-fuel-free-portfolios-outperform-investments-that-include-carbon-polluters/
Scientists Predict Looming Climate Shift
Will Ocean Heat Come Back To Haunt Us Once Again 16jul13 Rob
Painting via Skeptical
Science ThinkProgress
A Looming Climate Shift Will Ocean Heat Come Back to Haunt us
24jun13 http://www.skepticalscience.com/A-Looming-Climate-Shift-Will-Ocean-Heat-Come-Back-to-Haunt-us.html
AIR TRAVEL: Hypocrites in the air should climate change academics
lead by example kevinanderson.info http://kevinanderson.info/blog/hypocrites-in-the-air-should-climate-change-academics-lead-by-example/
Science and Technology at Lancaster University Café
Scientifique Your Nitrogen Footprint Café
Scientifique Your Nitrogen Footprint Archive 5jun13 http://www.lancs.ac.uk/sci-tech/events/events_archive.php?event_id=001185
Aldersgate Group News - 2013 http://www.aldersgategroup.org.uk/news/2013
eg 11jul13
AG
calls for
review into resource security and climate change
#IceClimb LIVE. 1 skyscraper. 6 women. No permission. What will you do
to save the Arctic http://iceclimb.savethearctic.org/
https://www.facebook.com/worldhaveyoursay
DIVESTMENT: Major fund divests from fossil fuels as clean investment
movement surges on » TckTckTck The Global Call for
Climate Action 5jul13 http://tcktcktck.org/2013/07/norwegian-pension-fund-divests-from-fossils-as-clean-investment-movement-surges-on/54500
Climate Change CLIMATE AND GEOHAZARDS 29may13 Leeds https://climateandgeohazards.wordpress.com/category/climate-change/
Rich countries' proposal to bypass governments on climate aid
rejected Environment guardian.co.uk John Vidal
3jul13 http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/03/climate-aid-climate-change-fund
Media Still Overlooks 90% Of Global Warming, Washington Post Still
Won't Fact Check Columnists ThinkProgress 6jul13 incl Dana
Nuccitelli http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/07/06/2252281/media-still-overlooks-90-of-global-warming-washington-post-still-wont-fact-check-colummnists/
David Cameron hasn't spoken about climate change for three years. Time
is running out - Luciana Berger 28jun13 http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2013/06/david-cameron-hasnt-spoken-about-climate-change-three-years-time-running-out
LOW CARBON SCOTLAND MEETING THE EMISSIONS REDUCTION TARGETS 2013-2027 http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/0042/00426134.pdf
EU emissions trading scheme 'set to cancel out renewable energy
gains' Environment guardian.co.uk 25jun13
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jun/25/eu-emissions-trading-scheme-energy
Sandbag Real action on climate change http://www.sandbag.org.uk/
Natural revegetation of bog pools after peatland restoration involving
ditch blocking—The influence of pool depth and implications for
carbon
cycling http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925857413001730 incl CEH Bangor
Barack Obama's climate action plan – in full
Environment guardian.co.uk 25jun13 http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/interactive/2013/jun/25/barack-obama-climate-action-plan
BBC News - Obama lays out climate action plan - with videos http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23032890
Share this President Obama's Plan to Fight Climate Change
infographic The White House http://www.whitehouse.gov/share/climate-action-plan
Reaction from Oil Change International to Climate Speech - The Price of
Oil 25may13 http://priceofoil.org/2013/06/25/reaction-from-oil-change-international-to-climate-speech/
Obama to unveil first-ever US climate change strategy
Environment guardian.co.uk 25jun13 http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jun/25/obama-unveil-first-us-climate-strategy?CMP=twt_gu
Peter Lilley Global Warming as a 21st Century Religion 22jun13 http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/peter-lilley/global-warming-religion_b_3463878.html
Gwen wrote a vg comment
World Bank Earth's poorest to be hit hardest by climate
change EurActiv 19jun13 http://www.euractiv.com/development-policy/world-bank-earths-poorest-hit-ha-news-528705?utm_source=EurActiv%20Newsletter&utm_campaign=2daa102a0c-newsletter_development_policy&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_bab5f0ea4e-2daa102a0c-245659790
Great videos of Interview
John Ashton, CBE, on climate
change, politics and leadership - Clean Tech - Clean Tech
siliconrepublic.com - Ireland's Technology News Service 18jun13 http://www.siliconrepublic.com/clean-tech/item/33113-interview-john-ashton-cbe
Government insists Green Deal
making 'very encouraging' progress - 24 Jun 2013 - News from
BusinessGreen 24jun13 http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2276905/government-insists-green-deal-making-very-encouraging-progress
Government’s green deal branded a failure as fewer than ten UK
homes take out loans offered - Green Living - Environment - The
Independent 23jun13 http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/governments-green-deal-branded-a-failure-as-fewer-than-ten-uk-homes-take-out-loans-offered-8669959.html
Energy efficiency in homes Lofty ambitions The
Economist 22jun13 http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21579837-governments-flagship-green-policy-misunderstands-human-nature-lofty-ambitions?fsrc=scn/tw_ec/lofty_ambitions&utm_source=buffer&utm_campaign=Buffer&utm_content=buffer23804&utm_medium=twitter
Smart Super Grid » TckTckTck 29sep11 The Global Call for
Climate Action http://tcktcktck.org/2011/09/super-grid/1056
Could Brazil escape the carbon bubble
- 24 Jun 2013 - News from BusinessGreen 24jun13 re Carbon Tracker
report http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2276721/could-brazil-escape-the-carbon-bubble
We haven't hit the global warming pause button Dana
Nuccitelli Environment guardian.co.uk
24jun13 http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/jun/24/global-warming-pause-button
I tweeted re this: 90% of global warming is to the oceans ...
Obama's Arctic strategy sets off a climate time bomb Nafeez
Ahmed Environment guardian.co.uk 17may13 http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/earth-insight/2013/may/17/obama-arctic-energy-security-climate
Weird weather might just wake feeble politicians up to climate
change Zoe Williams Comment is free
guardian.co.uk http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/14/weird-weather-feeble-politicians-climate-change?CMP=twt_fd
refers to 'Fossil fuels are the new whale oil', says environmentalist
Amory Lovins Environment guardian.co.uk http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/21/fossil-fuels-whale-oil
AA Met Office brainstorms UK bad weather UK
news The Guardian 13jun13 http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/13/met-office-uk-bad-weather-cause
but Huff give it a hyped & false title: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/06/14/uk-weather_n_3439346.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/14/australia-coal-queensland-climate-change?CMP=twt_fd
http://www.skepticalscience.com/paterson-on-climate.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/jun/11/boeing-commercial-planes-double-asia-pacific?CMP=twt_gu
http://www.noiseofthecrowd.com/the-climate-debate-has-gone-wrong-this-year-that-can-change/
http://www.euractiv.com/general/world-leaders-warned-risks-clima-news-528555
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/GranthamInstitute/Media/Releases/2013/Mr100613-nicholas-stern-report-international-energy-agency.aspx
***
http://www.worldenergyoutlook.org/media/weowebsite/2013/energyclimatemap/RedrawingEnergyClimateMap.pdf
* http://www.forbes.com/sites/mindylubber/2013/06/12/unburnable-carbon-or-no-fossil-fuel-companies-face-a-climate-catch-22/
IEA - June - Four energy policies can keep the 2 °C climate goal
alive
http://www.iea.org/newsroomandevents/pressreleases/2013/june/name,38773,en.html
http://www.rtcc.org/pacific-island-technical-paper-wins-support-at-un-climate-talks/
via Gwen
BBC Radio 4 - Costing the Earth, Berlin's Big Gamble
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01q8mqh
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/jun/12/greenland-darkening-ice-climate-science?CMP=twt_fd
How to get sceptical Tory voters to care about climate
change Adam Corner Cardiff Uni & COIN
Environment guardian.co.uk 13jun13 http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jun/13/sceptical-tory-voters-climate-change?CMP=twt_gu#start-of-comments
Statement by Nicholas Stern about new report by International Energy
Agency - 2013 - Media releases - News and media - Grantham Research
Institute on Climate Change and the Environment 10jun13 re IEA http://www2.lse.ac.uk/GranthamInstitute/Media/Releases/2013/Mr100613-nicholas-stern-report-international-energy-agency.aspx
Climate Change by the Numbers by Bob Ward - Project Syndicate 11jun13
Bob Ward http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/the-ipcc-s-fifth-assessment-of-global-warming-by-bob-ward
The Energy Fix Reinventing The Solar Array Popular
Science 11jun13 http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-05/future-energy-solar
cones
BBC News - Plymouth diesel power stations 'to help green energy'
11jun13 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-22845487
Group of climate change protesters who occupied new gas-fired power
station for seven days escape jail sentences Mail Online
6jun13 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2337011/Group-climate-change-protesters-occupied-new-gas-fired-power-station-seven-days-escape-jail-sentences.html
EU body predicts more extreme weather as floods devastate central
Europe EurActiv 5&6jun13 http://www.euractiv.com/climate-environment/eu-body-predicts-extreme-climate-news-528323?utm_source=EurActiv%20Newsletter&utm_campaign=27e877e190-newsletter_sustainable_development&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_bab5f0ea4e-27e877e190-245659790
BBC Radio 4 - Costing the Earth, Berlin's Big Gamble http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01q8mqh
Plan for £25bn Severn tidal barrage ‘is too
costly’ The Times 10jun13 http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/politics/article3786842.ece?utm_source=Daily+Carbon+Briefing&utm_campaign=b231a2e784-DAILY_BRIEFING&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_876aab4fd7-b231a2e784-303421281
Offshore Valuation report launched PIRC http://www.pirc.info/offshore-valuation-report-launched-today/
Briefing STA Position Energy Bill FINAL http://www.solar-trade.org.uk//media/Briefing%20STA%20Position%20Energy%20Bill%20FINAL.pdf
** IEA Five key charts on energy and climate
Greenpeace UK 10jun13 http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/newsdesk/energy/data/iea-five-charts-why-fossil-fuels-need-stay-ground
IEA WEO2013 EnergyClimateMapPressRelease http://www.worldenergyoutlook.org/media/weowebsite/2013/energyclimatemap/WEO2013EnergyClimateMapPressRelease.pdf
New community engagement rules – will they help or hinder wind
power - Climate change - Our work - The RSPB Community 6jun13
http://www.rspb.org.uk/community/ourwork/b/climatechange/archive/2013/06/06/new-community-engagement-rules-will-they-help-or-hinder-wind-power.aspx
ETS: EU ETS manipulates State
Aid Rules UK uses public money to subsidise polluters
FERN 3jun13 http://www.fern.org/publications/press-releases/eu-ets-manipulates-state-aid-rules-uk-uses-public-money-subsidise
*** CWI: Cavity wall
insulations crash by 97% following green deal introduction
Environment guardian.co.uk 29may13 Damian Carrington http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/29/cavity-wall-insulations-crash-green-deal
Learning Resources Transition News Cornwall A case for a
national insulation scheme http://www.transitionnc.org/node/50/2262 & why Green Deal likely to fail
Behind paywall: Green Deal under pressure to deliver as insulation
market crashes - 29 May 2013 - News from BusinessGreen http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2271183/green-deal-under-pressure-to-deliver-as-insulation-market-crashes
BBC News - Cheap coal 'threatens UK
pollution targets' 30may13 Harrabin http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22711416The
EU's statistical agency Eurostat estimates that from 2011 to 2012,
CO2 emissions increased by 3.9% in the UK. The rise is most likely to
be due to
increased coal burning.
Erratic US 'weather whiplash' accounts for billions of dollars in
global losses Frequent
and intense weather events in the US cited in climate studies as series
of natural disasters plague region Goldenberg World news
guardian.co.uk 29may13 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/29/erratic-us-weather-climate-change
Department of Energy and Climate Change Blog» Blog Archive
» Europe must stay ambitious on climate change http://blog.decc.gov.uk/2013/05/28/europe-must-stay-ambitious-on-climate-change/
- vg Oliver Hayes FoE comments re 2030decarb below http://blog.decc.gov.uk/2013/05/28/europe-must-stay-ambitious-on-climate-change/#comment-99722
Britain resists EU bid to set new
target on renewable energy Environment The
Observer 25may13 Fiona Harvey http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/25/uk-blocks-eu-target-renewable-energy?CMP=twt_fd
Energy savings hopes dashed by EU leaders' ‘political
cowardice’ EurActiv 24may13 http://www.euractiv.com/energy-efficiency/energy-savings-hopes-dashed-eu-p-news-519981?utm_source=EurActiv%20Newsletter&utm_campaign=c77cd0461f-newsletter_daily_update&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_bab5f0ea4e-c77cd0461f-245659790
Progress
on energy efficiency was blocked at an EU summit on Wednesday (22 May)
by a
cocktail of myopic business interests and timid leadership, according
to Hans
Nilsson, a board member of the European Council for an Energy Efficient
Economy
(ECEEE). Background
briefing documents for
the European Council were heavily skewed towards an agenda of energy
price
differentials and the promotion of unconventional fuels such as shale
gas.
EU summit set to turn climate agenda upside down EurActiv
23may13 http://www.euractiv.com/energy/energy-council-set-turn-eu-clima-news-519883?utm_source=EurActiv%20Newsletter&utm_campaign=ec7702722f-newsletter_energy&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_bab5f0ea4e-ec7702722f-245659790
Europe’s
plan to decarbonise its economy by 2050 could be turned on its head at
a summit
today (22 May) if EU heads of state and government
sign off on measures prioritising industrial competitiveness over
climate
change in draft conclusions seen by EurActiv.
The draft
text says that EU policy must ensure “competitive” energy
prices, and declares
it “crucial” that Europe diversify its energy supply and
develop “indigenous
energy resources” – a reference to renewable energies, but
also coal, nuclear
power and shale gas. One high-profile
German MEP Holger Krahmer (ALDE), hailed the end of “climate
hysteria” in a
jubilant press statement. “For the
first
time, rising energy costs and the declining competitiveness of the
European
economy will be rated higher than obviously unenforceable global
climate change
ambitions,” he said. “The
economic and
social consequences of collective hysteria can no longer be ignored, as
the
governments of the EU member states admit in this paper,” Krahmer
added, saying
that it was right to give more attention to energy sources such as gas
and
coal.
http://www.euractiv.com/energy-efficiency/energy-savings-hopes-dashed-eu-p-news-519981?utm_source=EurActiv%20Newsletter&utm_campaign=c77cd0461f-newsletter_daily_update&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_bab5f0ea4e-c77cd0461f-245659790
FoE: CBE: #2030decarb: Friends of
the Earth Clean British
Energy Current Campaigns What We Do http://www.foe.co.uk/what_we_do/clean_british_energy_clean_power_action_39060.html?ic_number=32877092&m_sourcecode=LM1305221&product=NEWS&utm_source=lyris&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email&MID=2513100&hq_e=el&hq_m=2515145&hq_l=7&hq_v=8e34891fec
Energy as usual at EU leaders
summit Friends of the Earth Europe 22may13 http://www.foeeurope.org/energy-as-usual-at-EU-leaders-summit-220513
A second chance to save the climate
- environment - 22 May 2013 - New
Scientist by Michael Marshall http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21829184.100-a-second-chance-to-save-the-climate.html?full=true -
refers to:
Energy budget constraints on
climate response Nature
Geoscience Nature Publishing Group 19may13 http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ngeo1836.html
Energy budget
constraints on climate response Alexander Otto,
Friederike E.
L.
Otto, Olivier
Boucher,
John Church,
Gabi Hegerl,
Piers M.
Forster,
Nathan P.
Gillett, Jonathan
Gregory,
Gregory C.
Johnson, Reto Knutti,
Nicholas Lewis,
Ulrike Lohmann,
Jochem
Marotzke,
Gunnar Myhre,
Drew Shindell,
Bjorn Stevens
&Myles R. Allen
Climate risk UN says
business response needs more urgency - 20
May 2013 - News from BusinessGreen 20may13 http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2268986/climate-risk-un-says-business-response-needs-more-urgency
Climate disasters displace millions
of people worldwide More
than 32 million people fled their homes last year because of
disasters such as floods, storms and earthquakes – 98% of
displacement related
to climate change. Asia and west and central Africa bore the brunt.
Global development guardian.co.uk 20may13 http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/picture/2013/may/20/climate-disasters-displace-millions-worldwide?CMP=twt_fd
LSE Grantham http://www2.lse.ac.uk/GranthamInstitute/events/home.aspx
John Ashton - a brilliant speaker -
speaks very inspiring words to US - urges US to make reality-based
choices that listens to science 15feb13
The Great Debate: CLIMATE CHANGE - Surviving The
Future (OFFICIAL)
at conference http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPaTAC29W2I&feature=youtu.be&t=44m34s a former physicist
Are
we beyond the tipping point for survivable climate change? How will our
nation thrive the coming food and national security threats tied to
climate change?
'It's impossible' can mean "politically "impossible" " not
scientifically impossible or impossible in any other way. UK green
growth is 4% or almost 4%, whereas growth overall is insignif.
7pm
Saturday, February 2, 2013 - ASU Gammage Auditorium
Greenpeace petition to have EU legisaltion for lower emission cars etc http://euvsco2.org/
BAD ideas for growth re CC: IdeasforEconomicGrowth6 http://www.civitas.org.uk/economy/IdeasforEconomicGrowth6.pdf
Printable A3-sized solar cells new milestone in green energy (Wired UK)
17may13 http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-05/17/a3-printed-solar-cells
*** John Ashton No UK
political party serious about climate change RTCC - Climate
change news 17may13 - speech to FoE http://www.rtcc.org/john-ashton-no-uk-political-party-serious-about-climate-change/
“This
can be expressed in three words. Must.
Now. Can.” “There
is one thing we need that only politics can give us. Leadership.”
John
Ashton - Former
top UK climate change diplomat - brilliant inspiring speaker -
e.g. ‘Cometh
the Hour’ Climate Change, Politics and
Leadership in Britain Today - Speech by John Ashton CBE to a Friends of
the
Earth and RSA event, 16 May 2013
http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/briefings/john_ashton_speech.pdf &
http://www.thersa.org/events/audio-and-past-events/2013/lifting-the-lid-on-the-politics-of-climate-change
* BBC News - Has global warming stalled? 17may13 Roger Harrabin
interviews several CC experts and a skeptic http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22565278
- well worth listening to
Population growth and climate change explained by Hans Rosling –
video Global development guardian.co.uk 17may13
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/video/2013/may/17/population-climate-change-hans-rosling-video
Climate research nearly unanimous on human causes, survey
finds Environment guardian.co.uk 16may13
Goldenberg http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/16/climate-research-nearly-unanimous-humans-causes?CMP=twt_gu
Scientists say united on global
warming, at odds with public view 97%
Reuters 15may13 - 'Ninety-seven
percent of scientists say global warming is mainly man-made but a wide
public
belief that experts are divided is making it harder to gain support for
policies to curb climate change, an international study showed on
Thursday.
"There
is a strong scientific agreement about the cause of climate change,
despite public perceptions to the contrary," said John Cook of the
University of Queensland in Australia,
who led the study in the journal Environmental Research Letters.' http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/16/us-climate-scientists-idUSBRE94F00020130516
BBC News - Fuel poverty gap widens,
although fewer in fuel poverty 16may13 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22552112
ENERGY EFFICIENCY: A third of councils failing on green building
directive Magazine News Building16may13 http://m.building.co.uk/sustainability/a-third-of-councils-failing-on-green-building-directive/5054583.article
“It
seems that the communities secretary Eric Pickles does not understand
why improving energy efficiency is so vital, not just to reduce the
UK’s carbon emissions, but for the economy.” ... Building’s
Green for Growth campaign has called for the roll-out of DECs to the
private sector to stimulate work in the construction industry and meet
the UK’s carbon emission reduction targets.
Our Oil Addiction Ignores CO2 Milestone The Price of Oil
Andy Rowell 14may13 http://priceofoil.org/2013/05/14/our-oil-addiction-ignores-co2-milestone/
UK government to oppose 2025 European vehicle emissions
target Environment guardian.co.uk 13may13 http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/13/uk-government-2025-vehicle-emissions-targetBut
the Department for Transport (DfT), where Lib Dem Norman Baker is a minister, argues
that trying to extend the targets beyond 2020 at this stage will only
cause delays to the process of agreeing the 2015 and 2020 targets, Activists
from Greenpeace on Monday morning unveiled a large banner in Norman
Baker’s constituency in Lewes, in east Sussex, calling on him to
accept the proposals. Photograph: Greenpeace
ENERGY EFFICIENCY: UK fails in new bid to water down Energy Efficiency
Directive EurActiv 13may13 http://www.euractiv.com/energy-efficiency/uk-fails-new-bid-water-energy-ef-news-519660?utm_source=EurActiv%20Newsletter&utm_campaign=41842bdc4c-newsletter_daily_update&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_bab5f0ea4e-41842bdc4c-245659790
BBC World Service - Business Daily,
Insuring Against Heavy Weather http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p017k0cv
Climate change sceptic to advise
David Cameron on foreign policy Appointment
of Peter Lilley, one of only four MPs to vote against Climate Change
Act, criticised by green campaigners Environment The
Guardian 10may13 http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/may/10/climate-change-sceptic-peter-lilley?commentpage=1
** Speculative coal bubble must be popped Business
Spectator ?13may13 shows Keeling curve etc - charts http://www.businessspectator.com.au/article/2013/5/13/science-environment/speculative-coal-bubble-must-be-popped?utm_source=exact
Climate milestone is a moment of symbolic significance on road of
idiocy George Monbiot Environment
guardian.co.uk 10may13 http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2013/may/10/carbon-dioxide-milestone-climate-change
Carbon Dioxide Level Passes Long-Feared Milestone - NYTimes.com 10may13
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/11/science/earth/carbon-dioxide-level-passes-long-feared-milestone.html?hp&_r=0
Climate-warming gas in atmosphere passes 400ppm milestone –
interactive Environment guardian.co.uk 10may13 http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/interactive/2013/may/10/climate-warming-gas-carbon-dioxide-levels-interactive
Exclusive Yeo warns of wide-ranging energy investment hiatus - 09
May 2013 - News from BusinessGreen http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2266893/exclusive-yeo-warns-of-wideranging-energy-investment-hiatus
'However,
the government remains committed to blocking the Yeo-Gardiner
amendment, which
would require ministers to next year introduce a target to decarbonise
the
power sector by 2030. Energy and Climate
Change Secretary Ed Davey has said that he would like to see a
decarbonisation
target introduced, but has promised to honour a compromise agreement
with
Chancellor George Osborne that will delay a final decision on the
proposal
until after the next election. ... But he confirmed 16 coalition MPs
have now
signed up to the amendment and revealed that a number of other MPs were
willing
to rebel, but were biding their time before "sticking their head above
the
parapet". ... Opponents of a decarbonisation target have argued that an
additional binding target is unnecessary and could effectively block
investment
in new gas capacity, undermining the business case
for proposed shale gas projects favoured by the Treasury.'
[<<< that’s exactly why we want the
target!!! - to reduce emissions & pollution!]
Ed Davey hits out against coalition
climate change sceptics
Environment guardian.co.uk 8may13 [then the next day he
backs Shell funding Oxford Uni to do research to help Shell's
destructive future high-emissions projects that will emit more CO2]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/08/ed-davey-coalition-climate-change-sceptics
BBC News - Arctic Ocean 'acidifying rapidly' 6may13 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22408341 Scientists
from the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) monitored
widespread changes in ocean chemistry in the
region. "Absorption is particularly
fast in cold water so the Arctic is especially susceptible, and the
recent decreases in summer sea ice have exposed more sea surface to
atmospheric CO2. The Arctic's vulnerability is exacerbated by
increasing flows of freshwater from rivers and melting land ice, as
freshwater is less effective at chemically neutralising the acidifying
effects of CO2."
Scrap fuel subsidies and price CO2, urges World Bank 6may13 http://www.trust.org/item/20130506153025-7i4en/?source%20=%20hpbreaking
Pro-biz/fossil lobbying in EU vs climate mitigation http://www.euractiv.com/energy/eu-leaders-sqare-circle-cheap-en-news-519606?utm_source=EurActiv%20Newsletter&utm_campaign=e1dcaf21b8-newsletter_daily_update&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_bab5f0ea4e-e1dcaf21b8-245713309
Strengthening of ocean heat uptake efficiency associated with the
recent climate hiatus - Watanabe - Geophysical Research Letters - Wiley
Online Library http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/grl.50541/abstract;jsessionid=A571AA47BE5C54460F12B3D6646F92E8.d04t01?systemMessage=Wiley+Online+Library+will+be+disrupted+on+11+May+from+10%3A00-12%3A00+BST+%2805%3A00-07%3A00+EDT%29+for+essential+maintenance
What's causing the surface warming slowdown Scientists tell us
what they think Carbon Brief 8may13 Roz Pidcock http://www.carbonbrief.org/blog/2013/05/whats-causing-the-surface-warming-slowdown-scientists-tell-us-what-they-think
* Offsetting
(& CDM) a guarantee for 100 years or just a clever
scam? Tyndall°Centre for Climate Change Research ®
Kevin Anderson's blog http://www.tyndall.ac.uk/online-tools/personal-blog/kevin-anderson-3
Climate Leadership Programme for
Politicians http://www.green-alliance.org.uk/climateleadership/ via
Becky tweet.
CARBON BUBBLE: Energy firms and climate change Unburnable
fuel The Economist 4may13 http://www.economist.com/news/business/21577097-either-governments-are-not-serious-about-climate-change-or-fossil-fuel-firms-are
https://twitter.com/2050target
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/193079/Summary_of_Wave_5_findings_of_Public_Attitudes_Tracker.pdf
http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/opinion/2264830/why-green-businesses-need-to-fight-antigrowth-myths
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/apr/28/carbon-bubble-australia-coal-industry?CMP=twt_fd
http://socialenterprise.guardian.co.uk/social-enterprise-network/2013/apr/29/energy-coops-cutting-household-bills-carbon
The Last Time CO2 Was This High, Humans Didn't Exist
Climate Central 3may13 Andrew Freedman http://www.climatecentral.org/news/the-last-time-co2-was-this-high-humans-didnt-exist-15938
White House warned on imminent Arctic ice death spiral
Nafeez Ahmed Environment guardian.co.uk 2may13
Nafeez Ahmed http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/earth-insight/2013/may/02/white-house-arctic-ice-death-spiral
Climate Change News Concerns grow over effects of solar
geoengineering http://www.enn.com/climate/article/45930
BBC News - Trillion-euro shortfall facing EU energy sector - Lords
Committee 2may13 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22372088
Energy Bill 'should be amended to protect community energy
schemes' Guardian Social Enterprise Network 1may13 Colin
Baines co-op http://socialenterprise.guardian.co.uk/social-enterprise-network/2013/may/01/amend-energy-bill-community-schemes I
missed on 1st May: Energy Bill 'should be amended to protect
community energy schemes' http://socialenterprise.guardian.co.uk/en/articles/social-enterprise-network/2013/may/01/amend-energy-bill-community-schemes … Great2c @timfarron signedEDM
Brits' love affair with renewables grows ever stronger - 30 Apr 2013 -
News from BusinessGreen http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2265046/brits-love-affair-with-renewables-grows-ever-stronger
The giants of the green world that profit from the planet's
destruction Naomi Klein Comment is
free The Guardian 3may13 Naomi Klein re divestment &
Fossil Free movements eg "Fossil
Free UK" http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/03/giants-green-world-profit-planets-destruction?CMP=twt_gu
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2013/apr/29/pr-smokescreen-holes-climate-teaching-proposals?CMP=EMCENVEML1631
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/apr/29/global-carbon-dioxide-levels?CMP=EMCENVEML1631
Tory
proposals to shake up the energy sector don’t go far
enough Greenpeace UK 29apr13 - useful cf btwn UK CfDiffs
favouring Big 6 whereas in Germany smaller co.s eg community schemes
favoured http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/newsdesk/energy/analysis/tory-proposals-shake-energy-sector-don%E2%80%99t-go-far-enough
Plants help slow warming – but there's a trade-off - environment
- 28 April 2013 - New Scientist http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23451-plants-help-slow-warming--but-theres-a-tradeoff.html
Plants slow climate change by forming cloud sunshade
study Reuters28apr13 http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/28/us-climate-plants-idUSBRE93R0AA20130428
c.28apr13:
http://climateradio.org/democracy-climate/
RBS sustainability report
shows deliberate manipulation of truth by the
state-owned bank Friends of the Earth Scotland
http://www.foe-scotland.org.uk/news100413
http://fuelpovertyaction.org.uk/2013/04/23/new-resource-gas-a-fuel-we-cant-afford/
http://fuelpovertyaction.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/ndfg-18-4-for-website-v2.pdf
OCEAN WARMING & RISING: RealClimate The answer is blowing in
the wind The warming went into the deep end 26apr13
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=15062
http://grist.org/climate-energy/everybody-chill-out-carbon-trading-is-doing-fine/
CO2 25apr13 http://keelingcurve.ucsd.edu/what-does-400-ppm-look-like/
CARBON
BUBBLE http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-sandler/not-a-fake-tweet-fossil-f_b_3157487.html?utm_hp_ref=climate-change
DEFLATE THE CARBON BUBBLE ShareAction http://www.shareaction.org/carbonbubble
http://carbontracker.live.kiln.it/index.html?CMP=twt_gu
Gas from
Norway, coal from Russia eight graphs on
the UK energy system Carbon Brief
12apr13 http://www.carbonbrief.org/blog/2013/04/decc-energy-statistics,-march-2013
SHELL vs
Greenpeace: Philip Radford (Exec.Dir., Greenpeace): ‘Shell's Plot
to Take Away
Your First Amendment Rights’ 12apr13 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/philip-radford/shells-plot-to-take-away_b_3069621.html?utm_hp_ref=tw
Climate
change did not cause 2012 US drought, says government report Environment
guardian.co.uk 12apr13 Suzanne Goldenberg
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/apr/12/climate-change-not-2012-drought?CMP=twt_gu
100%
renewable Is it time to wave goodbye to the Severn Barrage
scheme Greenpeace UK 23apr13 http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/newsdesk/energy/analysis/100-renewable-it-time-wave-goodbye-severn-barrage-scheme
The
Burning Question: ‘Why can't we
quit fossil fuels’ - Duncan
Clark - Environment- The Guardian
17apr13
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/apr/17/why-cant-we-give-up-fossil-fuels?CMP=twt_gu
-
article based on the book The Burning
Question by Mike Berners-Lee and
Duncan Clark, which is published on
20 April by Profile Books, price £9.99. To order a copy for
£7.99 with free UK
p&p, go toguardian.co.uk/bookshop or
call 0330 333 6846
and Amazon: The
Burning Question We can’t burn half
the
world’s oil, coal and gas. So how do we quit
Amazon.co.uk Duncan Clark, Mike
Berners-Lee Books £6.99 http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781250456
Carbon
bubble will plunge the world
into another financial crisis – report
Environment
The Guardian 19apr13
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/apr/19/carbon-bubble-financial-crash-crisis?CMP=twt_gu
How your
pension is being used in a $6 trillion climate gamble Bill
McKibben and Jeremy Leggett Environment
guardian.co.uk 19apr13
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2013/apr/19/pension-6-trillion-climate-gamble
DEFLATE THE
CARBON BUBBLE
ShareAction http://www.shareaction.org/carbonbubble
Unburnable
carbon 2013 - Wasted
capital and stranded
assets Carbon Tracker Initiative http://www.carbontracker.org/wastedcapital
Where did
global warming go? The deep ocean, experts say - Science http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/11/17708881-where-did-global-warming-go-the-deep-ocean-experts-say?lite re David
Pierce,
a
climate researcher with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography & Kevin
Trenberth and
colleagues at the National Center for Atmospheric Research - Oceans
are well-known to absorb more than 90
percent of the excess heat, but its presence in the deep ocean "is
fairly
new, it is not there throughout the record," Trenberth said during a
teleconference with reporters on Thursday. "So the question is: What
happened to produce this?"
Let's stop
hiding behind recycling and be honest about consumption - We
have offshored the
problem of escalating consumption, and our perceptions of it, by
considering
only territorial emissions
George Monbiot Environment guardian.co.uk 12apr13 http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2013/apr/12/escalating-consumption?CMP=twt_gu
Bird death
and wind turbines a look at the
evidence Carbon Brief 10apr12 http://www.carbonbrief.org/blog/2013/04/wind-farms-and-birds
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=wild-weather-can-send-greenhouse-gases-spiraling
http://www.livescience.com/28584-climate-direct-costs.html
http://grist.org/business-technology/2011-12-07-walmart-spends-big-to-help-anti-environment-candidates/
Met Office
investigating Arctic link to record low temperatures in UK - ITV News
10apr13 http://www.itv.com/news/2013-04-10/met-office-investigating-arctic-link-in-record-low-temperatures/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/apr/10/climate-g8-agenda-government
10apr13 http://www.permaculture.co.uk/videos/nicholas-stern-climate-change-facts-plus-solutions
26mar13 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/green-deal-how-the-green-deal-and-feed-in-tariffs-work-together
PwC
Shale oil surge poses threat to renewables -
14 Feb 2013 - News from BusinessGreen 14feb13 http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2243698/pwc-shale-oil-surge-poses-threat-to-renewables
Methane
emissions from wetlands biogeochemical,
microbial, and modeling perspectives from local to global scales -
Bridgham -
2013 - Global Change Biology - Wiley Online Library 11feb13 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.12131/full
Carbon
Commentary · Is the cap on subsidy for renewables compatible
with the target of
30% renewable electricity in 2020 23nov12
Chris Goodall http://www.carboncommentary.com/2012/11/23/2643
FoE - CBE
report sept2012 http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/briefings/plan_cbe_report.pdf
incl resaons why #2030decarb essential
for #EnergyBill
LibDemVoice http://www.libdemvoice.org/nick-cleggs-illiberal-hattrick-now-immigration-joins-secret-courts-and-media-regulation-on-the-pyre-33815.html
GreenLibDems
http://greenlibdems.org.uk/en/page/green-lib-dem-federal-conference-guide-march-2013
Mark Hunter
MP LibDem http://markhunter.org.uk/en/article/2013/675825/local-energy-environment-question-time-a-success
John Hayes
replaced as energy minister by Michael Fallon http://www.newstatesman.com/staggers/2013/03/john-hayes-replaced-energy-minister-michael-fallon
#2030decarb http://www.foe.co.uk/what_we_do/cbe_whos_in_favour_39043.html
*** Five
reasons why the speed of Arctic sea ice loss matters
Carbon Brief 22mar13 http://www.carbonbrief.org/blog/2013/03/climate-impacts-of-nearly-ice-free-arctic-summers
Google re
Rossby Waves jet streams - great pics & maps
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=rossby+waves+and+jet+streams&hl=en&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=1npLUeCADMHmOaP8gLgD&ved=0CE8QsAQ&biw=1333&bih=645#imgrc=a8gUPg51vufOZM%3A%3BC06zjthEOj5buM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fa.imageshack.us%252Fimg441%252F3928%252Fmg207277301013560449644.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fchem11.proboards.com%252Findex.cgi%253Faction%253Ddisplay%2526board%253DDiscussion%2526thread%253D2270%2526page%253D16%3B560%3B443
http://ukclimateprojections.defra.gov.uk/ http://ukclimateprojections.defra.gov.uk/22537 -relevant to
discussion re Affect on UK weather/climate by Arctic Amp
Duncan Clark
27mar13 http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/03/27/climate-change-models-predict-remarkably-accurate-results/
BBC News -
Prof Sir John Beddington warns of floods, droughts and storms http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21357520
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21357520?postId=115729603#comment_115729603
* 25mar13 http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/03/25/1768601/in-hot-water-global-warming-has-accelerated-in-past-15-years-new-study-of-oceans-confirms/ - it’s the oceans stupid!
BBC News - Has
the 'greenest government ever' gassed itself - Black mar13 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17423877
http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2256711/rspb-and-ecotricity-team-up-to-create-renewable-energy-nature-reserves
http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/commentators/other_comments/1862176/the_hidden_conservation_costs_of_renewable_energy.html evidence from Eastern Europe
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/mar/21/real-market-forces-action-climate-change
http://www.farmingfutures.org.uk/blog/farmers-perceptions-climate-change-0
GSI Briefing
note 1- Wiles - Farmers perceptions to climate change 1oct12
http://www.anglia.ac.uk/ruskin/en/home/microsites/global_sustainability_institute/publications.Maincontent.0006.file.tmp/GSI%20Briefing%20note%201-%20Wiles%20-%20Farmers%20perceptions%20to%20climate%20change.pdf
Life After
Oil and Gas - NYTimes.com http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/24/sunday-review/life-after-oil-and-gas.html?pagewanted=1&_r=3&hp&
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/mar/21/school-climate-change-petition
http://www.rtcc.org/key-cameron-advisor-blocks-climate-change-from-g8-agenda/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2013/jan/11/david-cameron-climate-change-g8
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2013/mar/27/climate-policies-lower-energy-bills?CMP=twt_gu
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9955878/Tackling-climate-change-doesnt-cost-the-earth.html
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-sets-out-plans-to-cut-emissions-from-heat
http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2257473/exclusive-davey-insists-there-are-no-mixed-messages-from-government
http://www.carbonbrief.org/blog/2013/03/climate-impacts-of-nearly-ice-free-arctic-summers
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/23/greedy-lying-bastards-climate-change_n_2917724.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/21/technology/personaltech/cheaper-led-bulbs-make-it-easier-to-switch-lights.html?pagewanted=1&_r=3&
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/make-climate-change-a-priority/2013/01/24/6c5c2b66-65b1-11e2-9e1b-07db1d2ccd5b_story.html
Why Climate
Scientists Have Consistently UNDERestimated Key Global Warming Impacts ThinkProgress 31jan13 http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/01/31/1524981/why-climate-scientists-have-consistently-underestimated-key-global-warming-impacts/ - NB:
graphs of sea-level change
*** Scientist
Seeks Connection Between Fire and Ice in Greenland
PBS NewsHour 30jan13 Dr Jason Box Dark Snow
project http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2013/01/scientist-seeks-donations-to-fund-greenland-research.html satellite
spotted smoke cloud carried over Greenland wildfire soot can be
identified but
to do this he needs funding (as US gov doesn’t rate this as a
priority for
funding!)
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=new-us-secretary-of-state-argues-climate-change-a-top-priority
http://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/index.cfm?request=c1274974
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2013/jan/25/one-direction-climate-comms?CMP=twt_fd
http://www.countryside-jobs.com/cjsdailyonline/Feb13/2501_1.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/exclusive-billionaires-secretly-fund-attacks-on-climate-science-8466312.html
http://www.co-operative.coop/energyaction
My Nature Piece
On Dust-Bowlification And the Grave Threat It Poses to Food Security
By Joe Romm on
May 24,
2012
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