Beautiful, Clean Coal – The Daily Sceptic
The death of coal, held to be the eldest and ugliest of the three fossil fuel siblings, has long been exaggerated. While oil and natural gas needed to be tolerated for some time in the ‘energy transition’, dirty coal – responsible for soot, smog and respiratory disease – was already beyond the pale for many decades in most Western developed countries.
The latest twist in this tale of a death exaggerated starts with a Guardian story on Monday last week. In his trip to China – the world’s largest coal consumer by far, and with no let-up in sight – the UK’s Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero “is hoping to shape a new global axis in favour of climate action along with China and developing countries, to counter Donald Trump’s abandonment of green policies in the US”. Then, on Saturday, the Daily Mail reported that Miliband “admits his solar panels bought for English schools and hospitals are Chinese and may be made using coal”.
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