What is attribution science? The critical climate research that Big Oil would rather you didn’t believe in

Climate science has been clear for decades: Since at least the 1950s, oil and gas companies have known that their fossil fuels release planet-warming carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere. And we’ve known that those emissions cause dangerous planetary impacts like the melting of our ice caps, rising sea levels, and “potentially serious environmental damage worldwide,” as one 1968 study put it. In the years since, experts learned even more about how climate change fuels extrem...