CarbonBrief

CarbonBrief
Type of site
 Climate and energy
Available in English
Website www.carbonbrief.org
Alexa rank Increase 138,287 (August 2018)[1]
Launched December 6, 2010 (2010-12-06)[2]
Current status Active

CarbonBrief is a UK based climate and energy news blog[3][4] designed to "improve the understanding of climate change, both in terms of the science and the policy response". Leo Hickman is the director and editor for CarbonBrief.[5] CarbonBrief's climate and energy coverage, or editors are often cited by news outlets, or climate related websites, ie. YALE Climate Communications highlighted a summary of climate model projections,[6] a 2011 The Guardian article quoted editor Christian Hunt,[7] in 2017 The New York Times cited climate scientist Zeke Hausfather,[8] or in 2018 MIT Technology Review cited an analysis on emissions scenarios.[9]


Founding

CarbonBrief is funded by the European Climate Foundation, and has their office located in London. The website was established in response to the Climategate controversy.[10]

Reception

The New York Times climate team's newsletter in May 2018 highlighted a CarbonBrief article about solar climate engineering, as insightful.[11]

Awards

The Royal Statistical Society gave CarbonBrief a Highly Commended award for investigative journalism in 2018, for the in 2017 published article, Mapped: How UK foreign aid is spent on climate change, authored by Leo Hickman and Rosamund Pearce.[12] In 2017, CarbonBrief won The Drum Online Media Award for "Best Specialist Site for Journalism".[13]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "carbonbrief.org Traffic Statistics". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  2. ↑ "Whois Record for CarbonBrief.org". WHOIS. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  3. ↑ "Kravitz Interviewed by Carbon Brief at International Geoengineering Conference". PNNL. 2017.
  4. ↑ "Whom Do You Trust on Climate Change?". The New York Times. 2013.
  5. ↑ "About Us". Carbon Brief.
  6. ↑ "How well have climate models projected global warming?". Yale Climate Communications. 2017.
  7. ↑ "Lord Lawson's 'misleading' climate claims challenged by scientific adviser". The Guardian. 2011.
  8. ↑ "No Data Manipulation in 2015 Climate Study, Researchers Say". The New York Times. 2017.
  9. ↑ "The daunting math of climate change means we'll need carbon capture". MIT Technology Review. 2018.
  10. ↑ "How Twitter and Carbon Brief are helping climate change scientists fight Donald Trump online". The Drum. 2017.
  11. ↑ "Arctic Ice Is Getting 'Younger.' But That's Not Healthier". The New York Times. 2018.
  12. ↑ "Statistical excellence in journalism". Royal Statistical Society. 2018.
  13. ↑ "Online Media Awards 2017". The Drum. 2017.
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