I saw a chart today from someone who knows what he’s talking about of greenhouse gases emitted in the production and consumption of European fossil fuels. A couple of things stood out:

1) Coal was actually the best performer in this metric (which I found shocking but possibly this is as a consequence of emissions controls introduced for other reasons) 2) Gas used to perform much the same as oil but in the last couple of years has gone completely out of control.

Said person was arguing that trying to reduce emissions is attractive in the short term where there’s lot of easy wins, but in practice no-one’s shutting down the fossil fuel industry and it would be better to mandate they move to net zero/carbon sequestration.