The victims of hurricane Katrina tried to sue oil firms for damages (Image: US Air Force/digital version by Science Faction/Getty)
Editorial: Liability for climate change
IT IS time to start asking the hard questions. Countless people in flood-stricken Pakistan have lost families and livelihoods. Who can they hold responsible and turn to for reparations?
Less than a decade ago, these questions would have been dismissed outright. “Many scientists at the time said that you can never blame an individual weather event on climate change,” says of the University of Oxford. But a small meeting of scientists in…
