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We may now have a tool to hold #BigOil accountable for the damage they've done #Climate attribution science aims to prove in court that specific oil companies substantially increased the risk of #ClimateDisasters like #heatwaves that killed people in recent years (Learn more at the link below)

The move resembles how Big Tobacco was ultimately held legally liable Oil companies have known since the 70s that emissions from their products would threaten the climate, using Big Tobacco-esque tactics to preemptively evade blame

This is a really good article, all the way until the author seems to deliberately miss the point, saying "yeah but PEOPLE use oil, so it's not really the oil companies' fault" They LIED and LOBBIED to literally build our cities to depend on their product www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...