The company had set aside €2bn (£1.5bn) to deal with the crisis after it said 800,000 cars could have been displaying the wrong CO2 emission numbers – making them more expensive to drive for consumers.
To pin our hopes on low coal would be dangerously complacent, he argues, because if it is only marginally wrong the additional emissions could ensure catastrophe.
We are not just doing wrong ourselves with emissions, we are also killing our best friends – forests and oceans – that might ease the impact," Schellnhuber said.
Opponents of efforts to rein in carbon emissions are wrong to argue that the pope has no business jumping into efforts to limit global warming, which is expected to hurt the world's poor the most, Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga told Bloomberg.
Advocates for the power industry say the government is the wrong agent to reduce carbon emissions, given that the falling price and expanded use of natural gas has already helped reduce them.
But the consultants, who are independent of the communities objecting, argue that their assumptions are wrong and that the true emissions of the line could be substantially greater than government has been led to believe.
We think the way they look at the environment through emissions only is wrong, because they don't consider the environment that is created by our use of fossil fuels to create an industrial society that you and I are enjoying today.
From all indications, no one stood up to object that gaming emissions testing was wrong.
Such technologies are aimed at reducing CO2 emissions, which is the wrong goal, they say.
"You don't want those numbers to be wrong:" The EPA has acknowledged the emissions factors the agency uses are largely unreliable.
