That’s the environmental group 350.org’s takeaway from a peer-reviewed study published today in the journal Climatic Change, which seeks to hold individual fossil
fuel corporations accountable for causing global warming. The study’s
authors say they not only figured out how much pollution corporations
have emitted, but how much their emissions contributed to rising oceans
and global warming. Specifically, the study asserts that the 90 largest
carbon producers—including BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, and
ExxonMobil—have cumulatively caused up to 50 percent of the increase in
global mean surface temperature since 1880, and up to 32 percent of
global sea level rise. Investor-owned companies like BP, Chevron,
ConocoPhillips, and ExxonMobil have caused 16 percent of the global
average temperature increases and 11 percent of the global sea level
rise, the study says.
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