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Friday, March 6, 2020

The new science fossil fuel companies fear

Researchers can now link weather events to emissions – and to the companies responsible. A string of lawsuits is about to give “attribution science” a real-life test.


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.

The Norway-born academic’s task was direct, but far from simple: Find out how many greenhouse gases the world’s fossil fuel companies, cement-makers and other industrial giants had pumped into the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution. A geographer by training, he tagged library visits onto work trips to pore over annual company and shareholder reports. (“Nobody had seen them for decades,” he recalled.) He painstakingly traced mergers and acquisitions as companies morphed and amalgamated. He enlisted volunteers across the globe.

The new science fossil fuel companies fear

2 comments:

  1. The End of Snow:

    https://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/chart_seasonal.php?ui_set=nhland&ui_season=4

    Also, artificial stimulus using fiat funny money and deficit spending induces much more unsustainable building with CO2-releasing concrete. So who should be liable for all the new CO2?

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  2. What do you care? After all you think the climate change is a hoax. And as proof you showed that there’s weather and temperatures.

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