#attributionsci — Public Fediverse posts

Pushing people/ life outside the “human climate niche”
Modelling shows gas project emissions will cause hundreds of heat-related deaths

"According to the study, another 356,000 people globally would be pushed outside the human climate niche, a comfort zone defined by scientists as the climate conditions in which human societies have thrived historically."

"Under Australia's current environmental laws, the environment minister is not required to consider the climate impacts and emissions when approving a fossil fuel project."

"According to the Climate Council, since the Albanese government came to office, it has approved 31 fossil fuel projects resulting in 6.5 billion tonnes of carbon-equivalent emissions directly and from combustion of the coal and gas they produce."

"If there are actions around liability for the harms that have been caused by particular projects to demonstrate for compensation or reparations for the harms that are caused by fossil fuel developments."
>>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-14/fossil-fuel-climate-impact-study-models-heatwave-deaths/105870098
#climate #AttributionSci #FossilFuels #pollution #CoalGas #liability #harm #biodiversity #habitability #Australia #GBR #ExtremeHeat

Spanish schools to teach pupils how to cope with climate crisis disasters
"Spanish children will be taught how to respond to floods, wildfires, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions in a drive to help prepare them for the growing impact of the climate emergency." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/11/spanish-schools-to-give-lessons-in-coping-with-natural-disassters

Systematic attribution of heatwaves to the emissions of carbon majors
Study "establish that the influence of climate change on heatwaves has increased, and that all carbon majors, even the smaller ones, contributed substantially to the occurrence of heatwaves. Our results contribute to filling the evidentiary gap to establish accountability of historical climate extremes."
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09450-9
#FossilFuels #ClimateEmergency #climate #AttributionSci #accountability #heatwaves #floods #Bushfires #ClimateExtremes #disasters #IntergenerationalJustice #children

Quarter of heatwaves this century 'virtually impossible' without climate change, study finds

"If the occurrence of fires, cyclones or droughts can be directly linked to emitters, damage caused by those disasters may be easier to litigate than heatwave-related damages. The scientific community has been working for years now towards end-to-end attributions, linking anthropogenic actors to impacts. Not just temperatures, but economic losses, casualties."
>>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-09-11/heatwaves-more-likely-climate-change-nature-major-emitters/105747138
#FossilFuels #heatwaves #litigation #CorporateAccountability #disasters #AttributionSci #harm #pollution #droughts #bushfires

Extreme heat - harm from fossil fuels
Will it ever be possible to sue anyone for damaging the climate?

"Cost of emissions from five major Australian resource companies more than $900bn, study finds"

"Five of Australia’s biggest fossil fuel producers could be on the hook for hundreds of billions of dollars in damages after a US research team developed a method to link individual companies to specific climate harms and put a dollar figure to the impact. US researchers link BHP, Rio Tinto, Santos, Whitehaven Coal and Woodside Energy to specific climate harms over three decades."
>>
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/05/cost-of-emissions-from-five-major-australian-resource-companies-more-than-900bn-study-finds
#ClimateBreakdown #GHG #FossilFuels #liability #litigation #AttributionSci #ExtremeHeat #heatwaves #harm #Australia

Heat kills
"Analyses are stark evidence of how global heating is already supercharging deadly weather beyond anything ever experienced by humanity. The impossible heatwaves have taken lives across North America, Europe and Asia, with scientific analyses showing that they would have had virtually zero chance of happening without the extra heat trapped by fossil fuel emissions."
>>
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/18/climate-crisis-to-blame-for-dozens-of-impossible-heatwaves-studies-reveal
#FossilFuels #ClimateBreakdown #ExtremeHeat #ExtremeHeatwaves #AttributionSci #livability