Why a UK shale gas industry is incompatible with the 2°C framing of dangerous climate change
Why UK shale gas is incompatible with the 2 degree Celsius framing of dangerous climate change
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Enthusiasm over small fall in EU emissions masks underlying apathy on 2°C
“Delivering on 2020 climate goals shows that Europe is ready to step up its act. And better, still: it shows that the EU is delivering substantial cuts. The policies work. …
A response to Victor & Kennel’s commentary “Ditch the 2°C warming goal”
Published in Nature Climate Change. 2nd Oct. 2014 In preparation for an article a broadsheet journalist was writing, I was asked to respond to a series of questions related to Victor and Kennel’s proposition. Below is a tidied up version…
BBC’s programme on Shale Gas remiss in its neglect of climate change
Response to Costing the Earth’s programme: A decade of Fracking BBC Radio 4; 1st Oct 2014; 21.00hrs. This is a copy of an email sent to the BBC following Wednesday’s airing of the programme Presenter Tom Heap noted during the introduction…
Don’t muddle energy efficiency with reducing emissions!
This is a brief response to Zachary Karabell’s piece for Slate.com entitled “Naomi Klein Is Wrong: Multinational corporations are doing more than governments to halt climate change” (Sept. 30. 2014) Zachary Karabell’s analysis muddles energy efficiency with absolute reductions in emissions. We…
Focus on China underplays the urgent need for the US & EU to lead on 2ºC mitigation
China revisited: a response to Glen Peter’s interview in the New York Times (21/09/14) New CO2 Emissions Report Shows China’s Central Role in Shaping World’s Climate Path A shortened version of this post is included as a comment on the NYT website.…
Full global decarbonisation of energy before 2034*
This brief blog provides the headline numbers underpinning my disagreement with Glen Peters’ (Aug 27th 2014) estimate of the time available to remain within a 2°C carbon budget of 1000GtCO2 (for the period 2011-2100). Glen tweets that: “At current emissions rates it will…
Does Greenpeace’s sanctioning of short-haul flights mirror wider hypocrisy amongst the climate change community?
June 2014. The following article is in response to a report in the Guardian in which the head of Greenpeace UK defends the need for one of its top executives to make regular flights between his home and work (Amsterdam…
An inconvenient truth: US proposed emission cuts too little too late
June 2014 A response to the US draft mandate to cut carbon emissions from its power sector by 30% by 2030 (c.f. 2005) Kevin Anderson1 and Dr Maria Sharmina2 1 Professor of energy and climate change Deputy director of the Tyndall Centre…
House of Lords shale gas report chooses eloquence over analysis when addressing issues of climate change
May 2014. This short commentary is a response to the climate change chapter of the House of Lords economic affairs committee report on shale gas and oil. When it comes to climate change, the latest House of Lords report is yet…