The growing use of coal for both electricity generation and for the production of iron and steel across the world makes claims that the forthcoming Paris climate summit will cut fossil fuel use around the world inconceivable. Two anti-coal environmental groups in the U.S., the Sierra Club and CoalSwarm, have recently published figures on the expansion of the use of coal worldwide. The figures appear in the jointly produced research paper, Boom and Bust, which purports to show that coal is in de…
