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Re:Ryanair Condemns Hungarian Govt’s Idiotic ‘Excess Profits... by petertodd on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @12:08PM (#31741475)
> In 2007, O'Leary was forced to retract a claim that Ryanair had cut emissions of carbon dioxide by half over the previous five years because the claim should have been that emissions "per passenger" had been cut by half.

That's still an impressive accomplishment. So I'd be inclined to believe that was just an honest mistake.

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Re:Ryanair Condemns Hungarian Govt’s Idiotic ‘Excess Profits... by samatman on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @12:46PM (#31742126)
Emissions per passenger is a fake number, because it folds in flight distance, which has no business in the calculation.

Absolute emissions and emissions per passenger kilometer are real numbers.

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