Lawmakers Hope To Use This Emerging Climate Science To Charge Oil Companies For Disasters

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Lawmakers Hope To Use This Emerging Climate Science To Charge Oil Companies For Disasters

This story first appeared at Stateline. A fast-emerging field of climate research is helping scientists pinpoint just how many dollars from a natural disaster can be tied to the historic emissions of individual oil companies — analysis that is the centerpiece of new state efforts to make fossil fuel companies pay billions for floods, wildfires and heat waves. When a flood or wildfire hits, researchers in “attribution science” run computer models…