BRUNSWICK, Maine -- Everett "Brownie" Carson invokes powerful imagery when describing mountaintop removal operations, in which coal companies use explosives to crown mountains and access the resources inside.
"I'm a Vietnam vet, and it reminded me of Agent Orange," Carson said. "Once they blow these mountain tops off, the water's undrinkable, the streams are polluted, the properties are devalued, the schools close."

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ICG was recently acquired by Arch Coal. By Andrea Lannom A former senior vice president, secretary and general counsel at International Coal Group, has decided to rejoin Jackson Kelly, the firm announced July 5 in a news release.

James Delingpole

Daily Telegraph

The headline of this post really shouldn’t be controversial. It chimes perfectly with what Kevin “null hypothesis” Trenberth wrote in that notorious 2009 Climategate email to Michael Mann: "The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t."

And it’s what Phil Jones admitted in a BBC interview when he said that there had been no “statistically significant” warming since 1995.

Why then am I mentioning it now? W-e-l-l, because just as ze war is to the Germans, Chappaquiddick is to the Kennedy family and that Portland masseuse incident to Al Gore, so the recent lack of warming is to the, er, Warmists. They hate it. It’s an affront to everything they believe in. Damn it, if the world isn’t warming with the alacrity they’d prefer, how are they going to keep the funding gravy train going, and how are they going to persuade an increasingly sceptical populace that the “science” is “settled”, the debate over and the time for action is now? That’s why they can’t reminded of the truth often enough. It’s like salting the slugs that are ruining your garden: necessary, but also kind of fun too.

By James Delingpole
Daily Telegraph

More dangerous than Al Qaeda

Former US secretary to the United Nations John Bolton once famously said: “The [UN] Secretariat building in New York has 38 stories. If it lost ten stories it wouldn’t make a bit of difference.” (H/T Milo)

But I’d say Bolton was being too modest in his aspirations. Far too modest. I’d suggest that if we lost all 38 stories the benefits to mankind would be almost incalculable. Right now, indeed, it’s likely that the United Nations poses a far greater threat to Western Civilisation and the world’s economic future than Al Qaeda does. Have a glance at its latest report World Economic And Social Survey 2011 – and you’ll see what I mean.