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.

You have shown you're willing to do what it takes to defend science in the struggle of our generation—the struggle to save our planet from the most devastating impacts of climate change. Please make a tax-deductible gift before midnight and help us reach our $400,000 goal.

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

But we won't just be on the defensive. In 2014, your donation can help:

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  • Grow the UCS Science Network. We've brought together more than 20,000 scientists and technical experts who show the media, public, and politicians why science must inform our most important decisions as a society. And next year, with your help, we'll enlist even more experts to defend science.

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There is no other organization like the Union of Concerned Scientists. We have a winning track record, using a mix of solid science, policy analysis, media outreach, and grassroots mobilization. It only works because UCS members like you stand up for the facts.

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Kathleen Rest Sincerely,
Kathleen Rest
Kathleen Rest, PhD, MPA
Executive Director

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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