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Lawsuits for climate disasters? by DIANNE SAXE on JANUARY 21, 2014 http://envirolaw.com/lawsuits-climate-disasters/ Lawsuits against private firms for climate disaster compensation may not be winnable yet, but important groundwork is being laid. In groundbreaking peer-reviewed research <http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-013-0986-y> , researcher Richard Heede of the Climate Accountability Institute <http://www.climateaccountability.org/carbon_majors.html> offers the most complete picture to date of which institutions have extracted the fossil fuels that have been the root cause of global warming since the Industrial Revolution. Rather than just attribute emissions to nations, the study aggregates historical emissions according to carbon producing entities themselves. Heede concludes that nearly two-thirds of carbon dioxide emitted since the 1750s can be traced to the 90 largest fossil fuel and cement producers, most of which still operate today... Richard Heede's 7Nov13) full report is available at Carbon Majors: Methods & Results Report <http://www.climateaccountability.org/pdf/MRR%208.3%207Nov13.pdf> . (104 pages) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
