2013
2013
- Dec 31: KUSI: People on the Akademik Shokalskiy "seem to be partying their way through this situation"
- Dec 30: The Guardian: "I miss... banana peanut butter milkshakes"
- Dec 26: BBC Radio 4: Sir Paul Nurse: "Good science is based on reproducible observation and experiment"
- Dec 26: BBC Radio 4: Steve Jones on the media's "nervous tic" - "you must have a climate change denier"
- Dec 23: BBC World Service: The Return to Mawson's Antarctica - Part Two
- Dec 19: BBC Radio 4: Chris Turney: "Ultimately, global warming covers a vast array of different responses by our planet"
- Dec 16: BBC News: Jim Ratcliffe: "The UK probably has the most expensive energy in the world"
- Dec 10: AGU: IPCC: The Future of the Assessment
- Dec 08: BBC1: EDF CEO: "It is a challenge that we'll overcome if we are working together, joining forces"
- Dec 05: ABC: Chris Field: "it's really important that we view climate change as a problem in managing risk"
- Dec 05: Carbon Expo: Christiana Figueres addresses Carbon Expo Australasia
- Dec 04: BBC Radio 5: Greenpeace on energy: "we can provide the vast majority, or even all of it" with renewables
- Nov 29: BBC Radio 4: "Today we live beyond the dreams of our ancestors"
- Nov 28: IPCC: Achim Steiner: 25 Years of the IPCC
- Nov 27: BBC Radio 4: Tim Yeo: "I've behaved correctly in every possible respect"
- Nov 27: BBC Radio 4: The carbon price floor "should be scrapped" and UK energy policy is "in complete chaos"
- Nov 23: TckTckTck: Liz Gallagher: COP19 was the "Finance COP" but "that's not what it's going to be remembered for"
- Nov 23: BBC Radio 4: "We don't need this energy brought thousands of miles to us"
- Nov 22: BBC Radio 4: Sarah Wollaston: "we are losing many people around the issue of green subsidies"
- Nov 21: IPCC: Climate Change 2013 Working Group I: The Physical Science Basis
- Nov 20: Channel 4 News: Ed Davey: optimistic that governments will "go to Paris in 2015 and get that deal"
- Nov 19: UN: Ban Ki-moon: "All around the world, people now face and fear the wrath of a warming planet"
- Nov 19: BBC Radio 4: Angela Tilby: "Japan is on the 'naughty step'"
- Nov 18: WCA: Godfrey Gomwe: "As much as some may wish it, coal is not going away"
- Nov 18: UNFCCC: Christiana Figueres: "AR5 is arguably the most rigorous scientific report ever written"
- Nov 17: Bolt Report: Matt Ridley: immature green technologies "disastrously bad for people's living standards"
- Nov 14: BBC1: Question Time: "Is Typhoon Haiyan further evidence of mankind creating climate change?"
- Nov 14: IPA: Matt Ridley: Freedom and Optimism: Humanity's Triumph
- Nov 13: Cato Institute: Richard Lindzen: "Is Science Progressing?"
- Nov 11: CNN: Mark Hertsgaard: A two-sided debate on climate change is journalistic "malpractice"
- Nov 11: RTCC: Yeb Sano on Typhoon Haiyan: "We must stop calling events like these as natural disasters"
- Nov 10: BBC1: Shirley Williams: Climate change means "huge increases in the number of devastating weather crises"
- Nov 07: BBC Radio 4: Lord Deben on carbon cuts: "China is actually moving at a much faster rate than we are, now"
- Nov 05: GWPF: John Howard: One Religion is Enough
- Nov 02: BBC Radio 4: Germany's move to renewables "costing a packet", but "sun and wind will always be for free"
- Nov 01: BBC Radio 4: IFS: UK carbon tax inconsistencies cause higher energy bills
- Oct 30: BBC: Golden eagles are "susceptible to being killed by blade strikes at wind turbines"
- Oct 30: BBC Radio 4: Ecotricity's Dale Vince on the UK's "dysfunctional" energy market
- Oct 29: UN: Bob Watson: "We are getting rid of hunger, at one level, poverty at another, but it's not sustainable"
- Oct 29: Daily Telegraph: Prince Charles: Syrian conflict partly caused by a "depletion of natural capital"
- Oct 28: BBC1: Inside Out: "we may well be heading into more severe Maunder Minimum territory"
- Oct 21: BBC Radio 2: Stephen Thomas: nuclear expensive but "solar panels are getting much cheaper"
- Oct 18: Inquiring Minds: How do you get people to give a damn about climate change?
- Oct 18: BBC Radio 4: Steve Jones about "passionate climate deniers" - "no point in talking to them"
- Oct 17: BBC1: This Week: Andrew Neil and guests on UK energy policy
- Oct 11: BBC Radio 4: Lord Stern: "support for renewables will actually make bills cheaper, in the long run"
- Oct 09: BBC Radio 4: Britain should "continue to lead the charge" against fossil-fuel "enemy"
- Oct 02: Royal Society: Next steps in climate science: John Ashton
- Oct 02: One Young World: Bob Geldof on climate change: "There will be a mass extinction event"
- Oct 01: BBC Radio 4: Costing the Earth: IPCC's 5th Assessment Report
- Sep 27: BBC Radio 4: Bob Carter: the IPCC's 95% probability is "hocus-pocus science"
- Sep 27: BBC Radio 5 Live: Peter Stott: "there is this very clear linear relationship" between CO2 emissions and temp rise
- Sep 27: BBC News: Walport: "climate warming is really a bit of a misnomer, it's actually climate disruption"
- Sep 25: BBC2: Science Britannica Pt 2 [excerpt]: Brian Cox on peer review
- Sep 25: BBC Radio 4: John Bell: Climate cynicism unabated, despite "unprecedented scientific consensus"
- Sep 23: Newsmax TV: Rupert Darwall on man-made climate change: "the science is weak because you can't falsify it"
- Sep 23: BBC News: Andrew Montford on the "pause": "If they can't explain it then they should say so"
- Sep 23: Radio 5 Live: Andrew Montford on the IPCC's dilemma: "How do they explain the pause away?"
- Sep 23: Climate Group: Blair: "how do we instil the necessary sense of urgency, and how do we mobilise for action?"
- Sep 14: Liberal Democrats: Ed Davey criticises "the stone-age wing of the Conservative Party"
- Sep 11: BBC Radio 4: John Broome: "Our lifetime emissions will shorten lives by six months or so"
- Sep 02: Green Cross: Dr Rajendra Pachauri: "we have five minutes before midnight"
- Aug 30: BBC Radio 4: Climate refugee projections unquestioningly adopted by IPCC are "iffy"
- Aug 27: BBC Radio 4: The Life Scientific: Joanna Haigh
- Aug 16: ScienceOnline: Mann and Kahan at ScioClimate event
- Aug 07: ASAP: Jacqueline McGlade on Tough Politics
- Aug 07: BBC Radio 5 Live: "Where they count polar bear populations, the polar bear populations are largely going up"
- Aug 04: CBC Radio One: George Monbiot on "rewilding" and "a mass restoration of the natural world"
- Aug 02: BBC Radio 4: Sir David King: "a good moment to give an extra push on the development of solar energy"
- Jul 16: BBC Radio 4: RWE npower CEO Paul Massara on energy prices
- Jul 14: BBC2: Ed Davey: "the vast majority of climate change scientists believe that climate change is happening"
- Jul 01: BBC Radio 4: Population: Ten Billion
- Jun 29: AllAfrica: Obama on raising African living standards: "the planet will boil over"
- Jun 26: BBC Radio 4: Extinction event "will result in the loss of about a quarter of our species within the next 50 years"
- Jun 25: Bloomberg: Obama: "We don't have time for a meeting of the Flat Earth Society"
- Jun 20: BBC Radio 4: Danny Dorling on population: "we've had 40 years of slowdown in the rate of growth"
- Jun 18: BBC Radio 4: Richard Betts talks about this morning's Met Office discussions
- Jun 18: BBC Radio 4: Sir Brian Hoskins: "...we're tossing ideas around and seeing what we need to look at further"
- Jun 18: BBC Radio 4: Met Office to investigate link between "weird" UK weather and climate change
- Jun 13: BBC Radio 4: "2012 saw the largest single-year increase in US oil production ever recorded"
- Jun 11: BBC Radio 4: The psychology of wind turbines: "Do we prefer six small ones to three big ones?"
- Jun 03: Point of Inquiry: Stephan Lewandowsky: The Mind of the Conspiracy Theorist
- Jun 03: DECC: Ed Davey criticises "destructive and loudly clamouring scepticism"
- Jun 03: BBC Radio 4: Ed Davey "extremely frustrated" by climate change "campaign in right-wing newspapers"
- Jun 01: BBC Radio 4: "Hydraulic fracturing is something that's been used in California since the 1950s"
- May 31: BBC Radio 4: Cornelia Meyer: "A lot of people, including myself, never believed in Peak Oil"
- May 30: BBC Radio 4: Lord Smith on the UK's "dash for coal" - now "over 40% of our electricity generation"
- May 30: AMSI: John Cook: "climate denial is essentially consensus denial, it's denying the scientific consensus"
- May 28: BBC Radio Wales: Shakespeare through the "lens of sustainability"
- May 28: BBC Radio 4: Chinese firms accused of "selling solar panels at below the cost of production in Europe"
- May 24: BBC Radio 4: Ian Fells: without gas or electricity "you quickly spiral down into anarchy"
- May 24: BBC Radio 4: "Europe's carbon market has effectively collapsed"
- May 17: CNBC: William Happer on CO2: "I think a thousand parts per million would be better for the planet"
- May 17: BBC Radio 4: Hansen: understanding of climate sensitivity "based on the Earth's history, not on climate models"
- May 17: BBC Radio 4: "Mainstream scientists have been puzzled by the recent standstill in warming"
- May 11: BBC1: Leading Questions: SSE CEO Ian Marchant talks about UK energy policy
- May 10: BBC News: David Shukman: "we're at 400 parts per million, and rising"
- May 03: BBC Radio 4: Power cuts "hurting business, hitting public services and making life for the poor even tougher"
- May 02: BBC Radio 4: Nate Silver: "people are overconfident when they make predictions"
- Apr 29: BBC Radio 4: Natalie Bennett: "we're standing up for economic and environmental justice"
- Apr 24: BBC Radio 4: Unilateral climate change policies "are adding costs that are not borne by our competitors"
- Apr 18: BBC Radio 4: Sir Mark Walport on climate change and energy policy: "It's about balancing issues"
- Apr 18: BBC Radio 4: The National Trust's "master plan to generate half its power from renewable sources by 2020"
- Apr 13: BBC Radio 4: "Maggie Thatcher did try and at least put environment on the map"
- Apr 10: Channel 4 News: "But in a world of global warming, why does it feel like it's getting colder?"
- Apr 10: ITV News: Julia Slingo: We need to "get to grips with" climate disruption like "cold winters, cold springs"
- Apr 10: BBC Radio 4: Ten years ago "I think people imagined that right now we'd all be growing cacti"
- Apr 03: BBC Newsnight: Paxman interviews Davey re £22 energy price rise by 2020: "Are you serious?"
- Mar 29: BBC Radio 4: Julia Slingo: On 65% of occasions "we do give indeed very helpful advice"
- Mar 28: BBC Radio 4: Philip O'Quigley on fracking: "The chemicals we use, you'll find them under your kitchen sink"
- Mar 28: BBC Radio 4: The most common molecule in the universe - carbon dioxide?
- Mar 25: Channel 4 News: An increase in world temperatures "just a symptom" of climate change
- Mar 25: ITV News: Sir John Beddington: "these extreme events are more likely because climate change has happened"
- Mar 25: BBC Radio 4: Critics: CO2 reductions "unrealistic, impractical and undesirable"
- Mar 25: BBC Radio 4: Beddington on climate change: "what we're going to experience is greater and greater variability"
- Mar 25: BBC Radio 5 Live: Benny Peiser: On more weather extremes "there is no scientific consensus whatsoever"
- Mar 25: BBC News: Beddington: "In a sense, we've moved from the idea of global warming to the idea of climate change..."
- Mar 16: BBC Radio 4: Think tanks: in a resource-constrained world, we need a "circular economy"
- Mar 08: Al Jazeera: Head to Head: Climate change: Fact or fiction?
- Mar 08: BBC News: Antarctic ice sheets found to be "more vulnerable to rising temperatures"
- Mar 06: BBC Radio 4: Sir David King: "...very few biofuels actually result in a reduction of CO2 emissions"
- Feb 26: Oxford University (ECI): Lord Deben: Lecture: "Even Ostriches Need Third Party Insurance"
- Feb 19: BBC Radio 4: Ofgem: "we have a form of near-crisis coming, for our power station stock"
- Feb 19: BBC Radio 4: UNEP scientist: "there needs to be a lot more people thinking about their diet"
- Feb 18: LBC: Attenborough on climate change: "we're already abandoning some areas of the country"
- Feb 14: BBC Radio 4: PwC: Shale oil could mean "an increase of 12% in total oil supplies, big falls in global oil prices"
- Feb 13: BBC News: Sir Mervyn King: British government's green policies have helped push up prices
- Feb 12: DECC: Ed Davey: "Because the stark fact is this - climate change is happening"
- Feb 09: CNN: Asteroid 2012DA14 approaches: "an effect, perhaps, of global warming?"
- Feb 06: BBC1: Parts of Africa "have become three and a half degrees Centigrade hotter in the past 20 years"
- Jan 31: Channel 4 News: Al Gore: George Osborne is "seriously misinformed" about business and the "health of the planet"
- Jan 30: BBC Radio 4: Moral Maze: Nimbyism and HS2
- Jan 30: Weather Channel: WWF's Jim Leape: In near term risks from global warming, "polar bears are right up front"
- Jan 30: BBC Radio 4: Reactions to last week's discussion about climate change and denial
- Jan 29: BBC Radio Scotland: Andrew Montford: Wind power is costly "and doesn't generate a lot of electricity"
- Jan 28: BBC Radio 4: Julian Allwood on the "economic trap" of cheap, efficiently-produced materials
- Jan 24: World Economic Forum: Lord Stern: "how do you get people to change their view of what's responsible?"
- Jan 24: World Economic Forum: WWF's Jim Leape talks about sustainability and climate change
- Jan 23: World Economic Forum: Christine Lagarde: The next generation will be "roasted, toasted, fried and grilled"
- Jan 23: BBC Radio 4: "Climate change - what lies beneath its widespread denial?"
- Jan 20: NYT: Obama: "none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires, and crippling drought"
- Jan 11: BBC Radio 4: Julia Slingo: Met Office forecasts show that "the Earth will continue to be at record warm levels"
- Jan 08: BBC News: Met Office forecast downgraded to "under half a degree Celsius" by 2015
- Jan 08: BBC Radio 4: "The Met Office has revised downwards its projection for climate change through to 2017"
- Jan 08: BBC Radio 4: Natalie Bennett: "how can we reshape British society for a low-carbon world?"