Daryl Hannah, scientist arrested at W.Va. mine protest
SUNDIAL, W.Va. (AP) — More than two dozen people — including actress Daryl Hannah and NASA climate scientist James Hansen — were arrested Tuesday in the latest protest in a growing civil disobedience campaign against mountaintop removal in Southern West Virginia.
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State Police said about 30 people were charged Tuesday afternoon after they blocked State Route 3 near a Massey Energy subsidiary’s coal processing plant in Raleigh County.
Full AP story here
In a statement distributed by the Rainforest Action Network, whose executive director was also arrested, Dr. Hansen said:
I am not a politician; I am a scientist and a citizen. Politicians may have to advocate for halfway measures if they choose. But it is our responsibility to make sure our representatives feel the full force of citizens who speak for what is right, not what is politically expedient. Mountaintop removal, providing only a small fraction of our energy, should be abolished.
No Jimbo, you are an activist and advocate for a cause.
Note to NASA: Now can you fire this guy?
Meanwhile, back at the RealClimate ranch today, the sound of crickets…
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Boy, Daryl Hannah has really let herself go!
REPLY: READ THE PHOTO CAPTION
Oh, my bad. hehehe!
Maybe this will lead to his firing finally. There has to be something in his employment contract pretaining to not being a criminal.
I doubt anything will happen to him though. He seems to have a protective bubble around him.
Lance (14:44:57) :
Boy, Daryl Hannah has really let herself go!
REPLY: READ THE PHOTO CAPTION
Hehe… very funny! However, she tall, probably nearly 6′ so it can’t be Hannah. But I know you were mocking her… 🙂
REPLY: no mocking, I really don’t know who the other woman is. When I find out I’ll update the post. – Anthony
Knowing he can’t win a debate on AGW alarmism Jim Hansen is switching his efforts to mountain top removal. He will then debate this and prove by proxy his AGW concerns. It’s a common alarmist tactic. I’ve had people try to prove AGW concerns to me by proxy with anything from evolution to the theory of gravity. I kid you not… the theory of gravity.
Thanks for the laugh!
I really didn’t like a US govt employee like Hansen coming over here to the UK to stop a legitimate and desperately needed power station from being built.
However removing mountain tops doesn’t seem the most environmentally sensitive way to mine. I can’t get too angry at Hansen for this one, but please just keep him in the US will you?
Tonyb
Hi Guys
You can show your protest by joining the “[url=http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=53080958739]Fire James Hansen[/url]” FaceBook Group, we have the following people.
David Archibald
Viscount MoncktonOfBrenchley
Paul Biggs
Joseph D’Aleo (Lowell, MA)
Richard Courtney
Tom Nelson
James Spann (Birmingham)
Jennifer Marohasy.
Eeeewwww !. This is the face of International environmental awareness.
This reminds me of Freddie Phelps and Wesboro church. good friends as a matter of fact of Algore. I suspect NASA does bacjground checks and don’t hire people with arrest records. He could easily be put out to pasture. Even competent Inspectors general have some employment risk.
Hannah & Hansen – now that’s a dynamic duo.
NASA – Now will you fire the guy? This isn’t some young fresh kid just out of college, engaging in activity almost expected of a twenty something junior researcher. This is criminal activity being engaged in by a prominent and leading member of the NASA community.
When a person is arrested, are they not hand-cuffed? Appears to be ‘escorted’ out of the area, unless in the USA, they don’t hand-cuff celebraties?
Wasn’t the person before Hansen fired for less than this?
This guy should not be representing GISS or anything else except some Environmental Lobby group.
From a fantastic photo of an amazing event (Sarychev Peak Eruption) to a terrible picture (their heads are cut off) of a farce. Does Hansen keep a log of hours off clock so they can deduct it from his pay? Not that it matters much. He does no good when he does do what he is paid for. double_Rant
appears there is another Lance out there submitting comments..that don’t happen often.
Since when has it become illegal to protest? Of course it looks bad but come on. Did he jump the wrong fence or what?
REPLY: From the AP story I linked to:
It is illegal to block a state road for the purpose of protest. – Anthony
I believe that Hansen’s activism is permitted, by him, to cloud his ‘professional’ work / professional judgment. That is why he makes so many outlandish and unrealistic statements. Hence, he is no longer capable of performing the tasks required by his position with NASA thus should no longer be allowed to remain so employed.
A childish act of futility usually engaged in by people who feel marginalized, powerless and disenfranchised. So, the chief climatologist at NASA feels he has no significant influence. He’s obviously delusional and perhaps even disturbed. Of course he has influence. But it’s apparently not enough for him.
What a maroon. Hehe…
The trooper photographs well!
He’s not really protesting AGW here and we must keep that front and center. If we let these two issues get conflated, we’re screwed. There are good arguments against mountaintop removal (though I’m not taking sides).
Hi Guys
I noticed the URL did not go through as a link so here it is again without the BB code
You can show your protest by joining the “Fire James Hansen” FaceBook Group
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=53080958739
We have the following people.
David Archibald
Viscount MoncktonOfBrenchley
Paul Biggs
Joseph D’Aleo (Lowell, MA)
Richard Courtney
Tom Nelson
James Spann (Birmingham)
Jennifer Marohasy.
If only we could convince West Virginia to do everyone a favor and keep the guy in jail for a few years. [snip]
Anthony, will you make a post when either James Hansen or Darryl Hannah gets themselves arrested for trying to stop a coal fired electric plant in China?
Any person that shows that kind of dedication to his/her beliefs deserves a cookie.
I wonder how long I’ll have to wait for that one. I’m not holding my breath.
“NASA – Now will you fire the guy?”
NASA doesn’t read this blog – it has actual science on it.
In China they don’t arrest you, [snip]
Okay, hehe, I guess that was a little to graphic. But everyone can figure out what they would do….