Climate researchers argue their science has advanced enough to directly link emissions from particular companies to damages from specific extreme weather events
“Many of the barriers to these cases are not scientific but political or legal,”
There is no guarantee a court would accept the details of this methodology either, says Myles Allen at the University of Oxford, who proposed more than 20 years ago that climate science may eventually make it possible to sue emitters for damages. “Will the courts accept evidence of a statistical link between annual mean temperature and the impacts of extreme heat, as presented in this study, when it comes to attributing causes of the harm done by a specific heatwave? Some may.”
I’m really looking forward to the international tribunal on crimes against planet earth.
Why not try stopping the polluters before the extreme weather events?
Well, the extreme weather events are already taking place. The point for me is that we should stop them before they do more damage. And they should pay to mitigate the damage they already caused.
