Coal Is What?

From Ace of Spades:
Attempting to explain why global warming is in fact failing to warm despite increasing CO2 levels, the cultists have a new idea: Maybe all that sulfur pumped into the atmosphere by Chinese coal-burning power-plants is actually deflecting sunlight away and thereby cooling the earth.

Like alcohol, then, fossil fuels are the the cause of, as well as the solution to, all of life's problems.