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The Case of the Killer Heat

A Matter of Degrees

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How Do You Calculate Carbon Pollution?

Leah Kohn: This is a stunning insight. It is like Richard devoted himself to solving what might be the greatest, most complex organized crime in human history. I asked Richard to tell me how exactly he figured out which companies are responsible. He says there's no central depository of all the annual reports that he would want to peruse. So he contacted colleagues and graduate students around the world. They have to tell shareholders by law ever since the US Securities and Exchange Commission required that companies,. publicly owned companies report to their shareholders what they produced during the year for an oil and gas and coal company.

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