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Big Oil’s Emissions Caused about 25 Percent of Heat Waves since 2000
A new study finds that one quarter of heat waves between 2000 and 2023 would have been “virtually impossible” without global warming—and can be attributed to the emissions of individual energy producers
“This study adds to a growing but still small literature showing it’s now possible to draw causal connections between individual emitters and the hazards from climate change,” says Christopher Callahan, an Earth-system scientist at Indiana University in Bloomington, who has linked economic impacts of rising temperatures to fossil-fuel producers. At the lower bound of this range, however, the company increased the probability of the heatwave by just 19%, which represents a “bare minimum,” Quilcaille says.ExxonMobil did not respond to a request for comment from Nature’s news team. If you subscribe to Scientific American, you help ensure that our coverage is centered on meaningful research and discovery; that we have the resources to report on the decisions that threaten labs across the U.S.; and that we support both budding and working scientists at a time when the value of science itself too often goes unrecognized.
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