Can the legal system catch up with climate science?
a year ago
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- #economic impact
- #climate change
- Attribution science now allows linking individual climate events to human-caused climate change.
- New methods can estimate economic damages from climate events tied to emissions by specific companies.
- Research suggests the global economy lost $28 trillion due to extreme heat from emissions by 111 major carbon producers.
- This approach could support legal claims for climate damages by showing human influence on 'acts of God.'.
- Climate models compare event probabilities with and without CO2 emissions to attribute impacts to specific sources.
- Emissions from major companies like Chevron and Saudi Aramco include both production and product combustion phases.