That version of the story goes something like this: On July 1, 1937, Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan departed from Lae, New Guinea in Earhartâs Lockheed Electra 10, on what was to be the longest portion of Earhartâs highly publicized round-the-world flight.
The youngest coal is not even coal yet -- peat. Peat is a traditional fuel in parts of the world, like Ireland, where it is cut from the earth, dried, and burned for heat. The energy content of peat is quite low. Young coal is called lignite, and is soft and brown, not much different than dried peat.
Best Answer: The presence of coal is not. Burning coal is depending on who you talk to (generally considered that it is). Coal is essentially heavily compressed organic matter which never had a chance to decay. Burning it releases any carbon which was present in the organic matter at the time of it's death which combines with Oxygen to form CO2. This is not necessarily bad for the environment as it's been there before but it's not ideal for the climate. What is bad for the environment is the particulates produced by incomplete combustion of coal and the sulpher present in certain types.