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[–] Tolstoshev@lemmy.world 78 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Scientists: we can’t understand why global warming is so much worse than our models predicted!!

[–] Strider@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Who could have expected the evildoers lying?? 😁

[–] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 75 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So who and how many go to jail now? I guess around 0

[–] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] oce@jlai.lu 12 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] MeatPilot@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Synthuir@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Waiting on BP to bravely introduce the concept of an ass-gas footprint

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

"Do your part. Wear a gas-collector."

[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 26 points 1 year ago

"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

[–] zhunk@beehaw.org 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why are you pressed about this? 😭

[–] Alsjemenou@lemy.nl 1 points 1 year ago

Their mom is a volkswagen

[–] veroxii@aussie.zone 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But... They said that Coal is very clean? Don't they know that lying is bad?

[–] onion@feddit.de 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No, actually they (the conservative party) were blabbing about "jobs" while letting the solar industry die

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

That as well