Last weekendโs Financial Times featured a story on itโs front page headlined:ย
Power companies predict return of coal
ย ย The storyย noted:
ย ย โThe world is on the brink of a big switch from gas to coal as the preferred fuel for power stations โฆย [A]bout 40 per cent of the orders for electricity turbines in the next decade will be for coal-powered units, with the share of gas-fired plants falling to between 25 and 30 per cent.โ
What the FT did NOT report are the implicationsย โ as climate change is spiraling out of control.ย Coal, of course, is the most carbon-intensive of all fuels, releasing twice as much atmospheric CO2 per unit of energy produced as natural gas.ย
ย ย ย What is surprising is that this newspaperโs coverage of climate change has been better than most.ย But clearly there is a disconnect between its climate coverage and its coverage of the energy business.
As the worldโs large manufacturers of electrical generating facilities forecastย a big jump in coal burning, we can expect to see the results in terms of increased climate chaos โ a consequence the Financial Times failed even to reference.
Given this kind of reportorialย negligence, the climate skeptics can take an extended vacation. The press is doing their work for them.ย ย ย
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