Climate change can exacerbate droughts
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Are fossil fuel companies directly responsible for climate change caused by the burn of their products-and if so, can they be prosecuted for damages? Yes, say that researchers who have developed a new method to link greenhouse gas emissions for individual companies to specific economic damage linked to the climate.
“I think the answer is unequivocal, yes,” says Justin Mankin At Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. His technique, developed with his colleague Christopher Callahan At the University of Stanford in California, each connects the five largest fossil fuel companies in the world to a loss of …