{"id":317444,"date":"2024-04-12T12:57:30","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T10:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=317444"},"modified":"2024-04-12T12:57:33","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T10:57:33","slug":"climate-murder-media-picks-up-novel-legal-theory-suggesting-big-oil-is-homicidal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=317444","title":{"rendered":"Climate Murder? Media Picks Up Novel Legal Theory Suggesting Big Oil Is Homicidal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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NICK POPE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A new narrative is making its way through major media outlets about major oil corporations: climate change that they purportedly caused is taking lives, and they could be held liable for homicide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In recent weeks, numerous outlets have run stories or opinion pieces promoting or otherwise examining the novel legal theory, which is the subject of a\u00a0new paper<\/a>\u00a0published by the Harvard Environmental Law Review,\u00a0according<\/a>\u00a0to a Tuesday E&E News report detailing the architects\u2019 efforts to market their idea to prosecutors.\u00a0The Boston Globe<\/a>,\u00a0The Guardian<\/a>,\u00a0Newsweek<\/a>,\u00a0Inside Climate News<\/a>\u00a0and other outlets have all recently published pieces promoting the idea that leading oil companies could or should be charged with murder for their role in climate change, which the theory\u2019s architects claim has caused thousands of deaths in the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Arkush, who runs Public Citizen\u2019s climate program, and Donald Braman, a professor at George Washington University\u2019s law school, articulated the theory in a March paper. Public Citizen is a left-of-center organization founded by failed Green Party presidential candidate\u00a0Ralph Nader<\/a>\u00a0that, among other things, pressures American International Group (AIG) to stop providing insurance coverage for fossil fuel companies, according to its\u00a0website<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Influence Watch<\/a>.\u00a0(RELATED: Dems, Media Push New Study Linking Climate Change To Inflation, But Economists Aren\u2019t Buying It)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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President Of UN Climate Confab Says There\u2019s \u2018No Science\u2019 Behind Push To Phase Out Fossil Fuels https:\/\/t.co\/g47BlZ0ptf<\/a><\/p>— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) December 4, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote>