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actual causes of global warming rule (lemmy.world)

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[-] ambiguous_yelp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 47 points 1 year ago

That statistic is flawed it counts downstream combustion of coal oil and gas for energy purposes (this is 90% of the total company emissions in the metric) which means you can buy a fossil fuel car fill it with petrol and burn it and that will be counted as corporate emissions

[-] Kraftee@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

That's interesting I wasn't aware of this. Would you by chance have a source for this data? I'd be interested to see the true numbers.

[-] ambiguous_yelp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 year ago

yeah its in like page 1 or 2 of the primary source the stat comes from one sec ill get it

Direct operational emissions (Scope 16 ) and emissions from the use of sold products (Scope 3: Category 11) are attributed to the extraction and production of oil, gas, and coal. Scope 1 emissions arise from the self-consumption of fuel, flaring, and venting or fugitive releases of methane. Scope 3 emissions account for 90% of total company emissions and result from the downstream combustion of coal, oil, and gas for energy purposes. A small fraction of fossil fuel production is used in non-energy applications which sequester carbon.

https://cdn.cdp.net/cdp-production/cms/reports/documents/000/002/327/original/Carbon-Majors-Report-2017.pdf?1501833772