The BBC's Science and Environment correspondent Matt McGrath has today written an article making the rather odd claim that renewables are to blame for a rise in German coal consumption for power generation.

Leeds Solar would like to offer 5 key points as a rebuttal to this claim

Atmospheric CO2 concentrations broke through the 400ppm threshold for the first time in 800,000 years in May at 7 monitoring stations around the Arctic circle, according to an announcement from NOAA.

“The northern sites in our monitoring network tell us what is coming soon to the globe as a whole. We will likely see global average CO2 concentrations reach 400 ppm about 2016."