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Topic: Attribution Science

Attribution Science is the scientific field that determines the extent to which climate change impacts specific extreme weather events.

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The podcast episodes highlight how advances in attribution science are a game-changer for enabling corporate accountability for climate change. Attribution science allows researchers to directly link emissions from specific companies to particular climate impacts, such as extreme weather events or rising sea levels.

This scientific development is being leveraged in legal cases and shareholder activism to hold fossil fuel companies responsible for the damages caused by their products and deception. The episodes discuss how attribution science is empowering community-led efforts to protect marginalized groups most vulnerable to climate change impacts Unnatural Disasters (Hurricanes and Humans) and strengthening legal cases against fossil fuel companies for their role in the climate crisis How Science and the Law Can Make Polluters Pay and A Long Record of Lies on Climate Change.

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