Extreme heat - harm from fossil fuels
Will it ever be possible to sue anyone for damaging the climate?

"Cost of emissions from five major Australian resource companies more than $900bn, study finds"

"Five of Australia’s biggest fossil fuel producers could be on the hook for hundreds of billions of dollars in damages after a US research team developed a method to link individual companies to specific climate harms and put a dollar figure to the impact. US researchers link BHP, Rio Tinto, Santos, Whitehaven Coal and Woodside Energy to specific climate harms over three decades."
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/05/cost-of-emissions-from-five-major-australian-resource-companies-more-than-900bn-study-finds
#ClimateBreakdown #GHG #FossilFuels #liability #litigation #AttributionSci #ExtremeHeat #heatwaves #harm #Australia

Heat kills
"Analyses are stark evidence of how global heating is already supercharging deadly weather beyond anything ever experienced by humanity. The impossible heatwaves have taken lives across North America, Europe and Asia, with scientific analyses showing that they would have had virtually zero chance of happening without the extra heat trapped by fossil fuel emissions."
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/18/climate-crisis-to-blame-for-dozens-of-impossible-heatwaves-studies-reveal
#FossilFuels #ClimateBreakdown #ExtremeHeat #ExtremeHeatwaves #AttributionSci #livability