Media articles from 2011
Below are media articles, written by staff and members of the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP) and published in 2011, in order of most recent.
December
A year of revolution
|Thomas McDermott, Irish Left Review, 26 December
A year of revolution |
Thomas McDermott, Social Europe Journal, 23 December
Ahead of our targets on climate change? Not by this measurement…
|John Barrett, The Guardian, 14 December
False sea level articles expose failure of UK press self-regulation
|Bob Ward, Huffington Post, 14 December
A profound contradiction at the heart of climate change policy
|Nicholas Stern, Financial Times (free registration is required), 8 December
Is accuracy being frozen out of the BBC's climate change coverage?
|Bob Ward, Huffington Post, 8 December
Scientists frustrated in climate change debate
|Bob Ward, Financial Times (free registration is required), 3 December
Why the house journal of the sceptics is full of hot air
|Bob Ward,
The Independent, 2 December
November
India's fight against climate change starts at home|
Susannah Fisher, RTCC (blog), 9 November
October
Hot air
|Bob Ward, Sunday Times (letter: subscription is required), 23 October
Lord Lawson's Global Warming Policy Foundation is spreading errors
|Bob Ward, The Guardian, 21 October
Paul Dacre's climate coverage undermines his case for self-regulation of the press
|Bob Ward, The Guardian (environment blog), 17 October
September
You've Been Trumped: film reveals tycoon's ruthless efforts to build Scottish golf resort
|Bob Ward, The Guardian (environment blog), 13 September
August
Green growth: paradigm shift or just spin?
|Alex Bowen and Sam Fankhauser, CDKN Global, 26 August
Is this the 'Smoking Ray-Gun' from the extra-terrestrial origin of global warming?
|Bob Ward, Huffington Post, 24 August
Is climate change science too trendy for school lessons?
|Bob Ward, Huffington Post, 17 August
An echo chamber of climate change denial
|Bob Ward, Huffington Post, 4 August
Climate pragmatism or climate illusion?
|Bob Ward and Alex Bowen, Huffington Post, 3 August
July
Climate change strategy for business
|Rory Sullivan, The Guardian, 22 July
EUSJA news: United Kingdom| (PDF)
Bob Ward, Newsletter of the European Union of Science Journalists' Associations (EUSJA news), 15 July
The IPCC's review process
|Bob Ward, Economist (letter), 7 July
The EU risks falling behind the green century
|Lord Nicholas Stern, Financial Times (free registration is required), 4 July
China risks overtaking Europe in green economic revolution
|Lord Nicholas Stern, Financial Times (free registration is required), 4 July
June
"Michael Gove wants the national curriculum to include the laws of thermodynamics but not "contemporary" subjects such as climate change"
|Bob Ward, The Times (letter; subscription is required), 27 June
Optimism about renewables
|Bob Ward, The Independent (letter), 24 June
The Daily Mail owners buy climate change, so why doesn't the paper?
|Bob Ward, The Guardian, 16 June
Climate change education can still be part of a slimmed-down curriculum
|Bob Ward, The Guardian, 13 June
May
America's climate choice: Put up or shut up
|Bob Ward, New Scientist, The S Word (blog), 17 May
Grasping the opportunity|
Dimitri Zenghelis, Inside Track (magazine of Green Alliance), May 2011
Enough already?
|Dimitri Zenghelis, Nature Climate Change, 6 May
Why science is a vote winner
|Bob Ward, New Scientist, The S Word (blog), 6 May
Five obstacles to reducing value chain greenhouse gas emissions
|Rory Sullivan and Andy Gouldson, The Guardian (The Sustainable Business Blog), 5 May
April
The China factor
|Michael Jacobs, Inside Story, 28 April
The prize, perils and price of China's plan
|Lord Nicholas Stern, Financial Times (free registration is required), 28 April
Whose responsibility is it to reduce carbon emissions?
|Rory Sullivan and Andy Gouldson, The Guardian (The Sustainable Business Blog), 18 April
Carbon trading: a good idea is going through a bad patch
|Sam Fankhauser, The European Financial Review, 15 April; PDF version| (227KB)
Lord Lawson's incredible complacency on climate change
|Bob Ward, Sunday Times (subscription is required), 10 April; MS Word doc|
Bob Ward, (subscription is required), 10 April;
March
Inflation erodes UK science budget
|Bob Ward, New Scientist, The S Word (blog),29 March
China gets serious about curtailing its carbon emissions
|Samuel Fankhauser, Committee on Climate Change (blog), 28 March
Climategate controversy continues
|Bob Ward, New Scientist, The S Word (blog), 18 March
Wettest autumn
|Bob Ward, The Telegraph (letter), 13 March
Urgent steps to stop the climate door closing|
Fatih Birol and Nicholas Stern, Financial Times (free registration is required), 8 March
Why the BBC's 'impartial' stance on climate science is irresponsible
|Bob Ward, The Guardian, 3 March
February
Has the impact of 'Climategate' worn off?
|Bob Ward, New Scientist, The S Word (blog), 14 February
More investment needed in UK's research base
|Bob Ward, Financial Times (letter), 5 February
January
The psychology of food riots: when do price spikes lead to arrest?
|Evan Fraser and Andrew Rimas, Foreign Affairs, 30 January
Why have UK media ignored climate change announcements?
|Bob Ward, The Guardian (environment blog), 13 January
Warming world
|Bob Ward, The Telegraph (letter), 2 January