Just 90 companies are to blame for most climate change, this ’carbon accountant’ says | Science | AAAS
▻http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/08/just-90-companies-are-blame-most-climate-change-carbon-accountant-says
Roderick commissioned Heede to look at the entire fossil fuel industry. To make the project manageable, they limited it to companies that produced at least 8 million tons of carbon per year, the so-called “carbon majors.” The research took 8 years. Money from the original grant ran out, and after the crash of 2008 Heede’s consulting business collapsed. He maxed out his credit card, borrowed against his Colorado house, and scraped by, enlisting graduate students in several countries to photocopy and send him papers, which he checked and double-checked with a watchmaker’s precision. He filled shelves with binders of information and spent thousands of hours entering it into spreadsheets, working alone, often until midnight. “I take pleasure in that kind of stuff,” Heede says. “I like to pay attention to detail.”
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