Copy-Paste Reporting

By B, The Honest Sorcerer

Fossil fuel companies often reach for the tools of greenwashing, but this particular instance unintentionally drops a tiny hint on a completely different story in the background.

Why Low-End ‘Climate Sensitivity’ can Now be Ruled Out

By Piers Forster, Zeke Hausfather, Gabi Hegerl, Steven Sherwood, Kyle Armour, Carbon Brief

After four years of labour and detailed discussions by an international team of scientists, we are able to quantify better than ever before how the world’s surface temperature responds to increasing CO2 levels.

Analysis: What Impact will the Coronavirus Pandemic have on Atmospheric CO2?

By Richard Betts, Chris Jones, Ralph Keeling, Yuming Jin, John Kennedy, Jeff Knight, Adam Scaife, Carbon Brief

Our findings show that the annual average CO2 concentrations will still increase through this year, even though emissions are reducing. Across the whole year, we estimate CO2 levels will rise by 2.48 parts per million (ppm). This increase is 0.32ppm smaller than if there had been no lockdown – equivalent to 11% of the expected rise.

The Recent History of GDP Growth, CO2 Emissions, and Climate Policy Paralysis, All in One Table-Runner

By Priti Gulati Cox, Stan Cox, Resilience.org

Increases in GDP and CO2 over the past three decades have had one easily identifiable cause in common: the reluctance of governments to curb the carbon emissions of the world’s largest economies for fear of slowing the growth of their own GDP.

Carbon Capture and Storage – A Fairytale for our Time

By Peter Gray, Postpeak Medicine

Wishful thinking is a powerful emotion. That’s why the media and the public love a good news story like this and don’t ask too many questions. We really wish we had a magic wand to wave that pesky CO2 away...

CO2 Emissions in Developed Economies Fall Due to Decreasing Fossil Fuel and Energy Use

By Corinne Le Quéré, Charlie Wilson, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research

The research team analysed the reasons behind changes in CO2 emissions in countries where emissions declined significantly between 2005 and 2015. The findings, published in Nature Climate Change, show that the fall in CO2 emissions was mainly due to renewable energy replacing fossil fuels and to decreasing energy use.

NASA Produces First 3D Animation of Global Carbon Emissions

By Robert McSweeney, Carbon Brief

NASA, the US space agency, has released an “eye-popping” three-dimensional animation showing carbon dioxide emissions moving through the Earth’s atmosphere over the course of a year.

The Quest for CCS

By Andy Skuce, Corporate Knights

However, many of the economists and experts who have developed scenarios for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) believe that the only way to achieve the two-degree goal in a growing world economy is to invest in large-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects.

Acidic Oceans and the Coming Trouble with Fish

By Tim Radford, OurWorld

Pink salmon — the smallest and most abundant of the Pacific salmon species, and a supper table mainstay in many parts of the world — may be swimming towards trouble.

BP Data Suggests We Are Reaching Peak Energy Demand

By Gail Tverberg, ourfiniteworld.com

The real situation is that we right now seem to be reaching peak energy demand through low commodity prices. I see evidence of this in the historical energy data recently updated by BP...