Financial Times' Missing Information

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Last weekendโ€™s Financial Times featured a story on itโ€™s front page headlined:ย 

Power companies predict return of coal

ย ย  The storyย noted:

ย ย  โ€œThe world is on the brink of a big switch from gas to coal as the preferred fuel for power stations โ€ฆย [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 newspaperโ€™s 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 worldโ€™s 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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