Richard Heede spent a decade digging through “disheveled, dusty” tomes in libraries around the world searching for the answers he thought could help save humanity.
“With federal policy being unsupportive and still emphasizing continued energy development, I just thought it would be a new lever to look at the companies that have their hand on the tiller,” said Heede, who now lives in Colorado. “And pressure can be exerted in a number of ways.” A gas flare from a petroleum refinery in Norco, Louisiana. Scientists have now analyzed all the carbon emissions from the Industrial Revolution until now and can calculate just how much can be attributed to individual fossil fuel companies. The breakthrough is being used by governments and other plaintiffs to sue oil and gas companies for the environmental damage caused by their products.
“I didn’t know that the legal interest would pick up so fast,” Heede said in an interview. “I didn’t know how this data was going to be used. But I knew that for any legal action — or, for that matter, shareholder pressure or regulatory pressure — we had to know who the companies were and what they contributed.”In 2003, the science journal Nature published an article by Oxford University scientist Myles Allen titled “Liability for climate change.
Homes on the New Jersey shore damaged by Superstorm Sandy in 2012. The storm was one of a number of extreme weather events that spurred researchers to develop a method to improve the attribution of extreme weather events to climate change. | Mike Groll/AP Photo “Read the papers. If you don’t believe the papers, then do your own,” Wehner said of attribution science critics. “This body of literature, which is now fairly large, clearly tells us that dangerous climate change is upon us, and people are suffering and dying — and it’s real, and it’s going to get worse.”
“The ability to attribute the causes of some extreme event types has advanced rapidly since the emergence of event attribution science a little more than a decade ago, while attribution of other event types remains challenging,” the report said.
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This is a deranged pack of lies. Total junk BS “science.”
The grand extortion racket takes another turn.
Weather events are not climate and emissions of CO2 cannot be attributable because localized CO2 does not impact global climate and well this is politics not science and will lose...
No they fucking can't.
Researchers paid by the AGW lobby... 🙄
This is an entirely political phenomenon, not scientific. The article itself says that it is intended to 'end-run' what the activists claim are insufficient government efforts by turning to the courts, a time-honored Leftist tactic to force their agenda on uncooperative voters.
It will be interesting when actual science gets presented in court. Courts don’t accept yelling “Science Denier” as an actual scientific argument. Best way to end the climate change movement is to let the real science out.
No they can’t.
What an interesting read!
Yeah right.
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