World News @lemmy.ml naturalgasbad @lemmy.ca 2 mo. ago

German Coal Mines Emit 184x More Methane Than Reported to UN, Ember Says

www.bloomberg.com German Coal Mines Emit Much More Methane Than Reported, Study Says

The nation has committed to helping slash global methane emissions 30% by the end of this decade.

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Scientists: we can’t understand why global warming is so much worse than our models predicted!!
- Who could have expected the evildoers lying?? 😁
So who and how many go to jail now? I guess around 0
- Nah, there'll be like a junior VP or department head paid to take the fall, and the people that actually signed off will wipe their hands and feign ignorance.
- Best I can do is an executive position in a foreign fossil fuel company.
"Oops." - The people killing our world and won't face any real consequences.
Welp better stop eating beans and farting for the rest of my life to help do my part and recoup the damages. All this world destroying pollution is my fault as a consumer, not the producers.
- Waiting on BP to bravely introduce the concept of an ass-gas footprint
  
  "Do your part. Wear a gas-collector."
- The producers produce so the consumers can consume, why are we passing blame back and forth when both parties are to blame for this?
  
  If the producers don't produce, the consumers can't consume.
  
  But if the consumers don't consume then the producers can still produce.
"Well this is highly surprising!", said exactly nobody.

Honestly this should have been expected. It's baffling that self-reported numbers are taken at face value
VW must be running them
- Hahaha, you're so funny. The emission scandal was about NOx, that's mostly air pollution and it wasn't just VW, it was basically any car manufacturer that sold cars with diesel engines.
  
  Why are you pressed about this? 😭
Now do Australia!
- They've already done it.
  
  They have already done us. And it's the same for alle the gas/oil fields. We need to plug a million holes at this point.
But... They said that Coal is very clean? Don't they know that lying is bad?
- No, actually they (the conservative party) were blabbing about "jobs" while letting the solar industry die
  
  That as well
  
  Meanwhile the Green party literally shutting down nuclear reactors for more coal and gas plants, and of course the debacle of tearing down windmills to do open pit coal mining.
So who and how many go to jail now? I guess around 0

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