Hansen "adjusts" a cooling trend into a warming trend

"[H]ere is what the data looks like before and after NASA GISS adjusts it. These are the USHCN “raw” and “homogenized” data plots from the GISTEMP website. The before and after is quite something to behold. ... What was down, is now up." "How not to measure temperature, part 79"

Full speed ahead for China's coal trains

China plans to spend more than 150 billion yuan ($21.8 billion) over the next six years to add some 2,000 km of railway track in the coal-rich region of northern Shanxi province, the Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday.

More alarmist crap from NRDC

WASHINGTON — The whitebark pine, a tree found in the high elevations of the western U.S. and Canada , is being killed as a consequence of global warming and should be protected as an endangered species, an environmental group formally told the Interior Department Tuesday.

New coal-to-liquids plant planned

"ROANOKE, W.Va. -- A New York firm announced plans Tuesday to build a $3 billion plant in Mingo County to turn coal into gasoline. TransGas Development Systems LLC said the project would create 200 permanent jobs turning 8,500 tons of coal into 18,000 barrels of gasoline every day."