New Report Names Names
This is huge: A new report from climate scientist
Richard Heede has the potential to reshape the debate on
climate change.
The report shows that nearly two-thirds of all
the industrial carbon pollution in the last 150 years
can be traced directly to just 90 global actors—Chevron,
ExxonMobil, Saudi Aramco, Peabody Energy, and more.1
UCS was in close contact with Heede as he prepared to
publish his findings. But the release of this
groundbreaking report is only the first step. Now we
need your help to use this data to tie the specific
impacts of climate change back to these global actors.
As we bring much needed attention to the responsibility
these companies bear for damages to our climate, we may
very well face attacks from powerful, well-funded
interests.
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The powerful and rich corporations named in this new
research won't like these findings. They'll do
everything they can to bury or discredit them—distorting
facts, attacking scientists. How do we know? Because
they've done it before.
They'll send their hired guns to discredit our findings
in the media. We know because UCS launched a
groundbreaking analysis that showed the media repeatedly
fails to disclose when "experts" are funded by the oil,
gas, and coal industries.2
And they'll make sure climate-denying "think tanks"
further sow doubt. We've followed the money to show how
organizations funded by the Koch brothers and fossil
fuel companies are the same exact front groups
Big Tobacco used to mislead the public about smoking—an
alarming case of déjà vu.3
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1.
http://blog.ucsusa.org/who-is-responsible-for-climate-change-new-study-identifies-the-top-90-producers-of-industrial-carbon-emissions-314
2.
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/solutions/fight-misinformation/news-media-helps-koch-brothers-exxon-mobil-spread-climate-disinformation.html
3.
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/solutions/fight-misinformation/global-warming-facts-and-fossil-fuel-industry-disinformation-tactics.html
4.
http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_agriculture/solutions/expand-healthy-food-access/11-trillion-reward.html
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