Conservative campaign targets climate attribution science report, prompting panel resignations
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Corbin Hiar, Lesley Clark, Chelsea Harvey
Summary
A secretive opposition research group is scrutinizing scientists' emails in an effort to discredit a key climate science report on attribution science — the emerging field that measures how much climate change has worsened individual disasters. The campaign has prompted two people to leave the 15-person panel producing the report, which is expected to be released soon. The effort is seen as an attempt to keep attribution science out of courtrooms, where it could be used to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for climate damages. Billions of dollars are at stake in the legal battles.
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And what they're doing is trying to discredit the science before it can be used in litigation.
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