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Tracing Who’s Responsible for Temperature Increase and Sea Level Rise [1]

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Date: 2023-12

How much acidification has occurred since fossil fuel companies became aware of the risks of their products?

Will top fossil fuel producers help shoulder the costs? They should.

As early as 1965, investor-owned fossil fuel companies knew their business was risky—that the use of their products released dangerous amounts of carbon dioxide and methane emissions that could destabilize our climate.

These companies could have taken steps to reduce the risks. Instead, they chose to misinform the public and their investors, block action to limit carbon emissions and carried on with business as usual.

But, we now have the science to determine how much the emissions related to fossil products have contributed to global temperature rise and sea level rise.

A peer-reviewed study, authored by Brenda Ekwurzel, James Boneham, Mike Dalton, Rick Heede, Roberto Mera, Myles Allen and Peter Frumhoff and published in Climatic Change, analyzed and quantified the climate change impacts of carbon dioxide and methane emissions traced to each company for two time-periods: 1880 to 2010 and 1980 to 2010.

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[1] Url: https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/tracing-whos-responsible-temperature-increase-and-sea-level-rise

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