Dr. James Hansen arrested in coal protest at the White House, see the photo below.
From the Wonk Room » Around The World, Activists Arrested For Protesting Coal’s Destruction
More than 100 people were arrested today during Appalachia Rising, the largest national protest to end mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining. Arrests included Appalachian residents; retired coal miners; renowned climate scientist, James Hansen; and faith leaders. After a march from Freedom Plaza and a rally at Lafayette Park, more than 100 staged a sit-in in front of the White House to demand President Obama follow his own science and end mountaintop mining.
“The science is clear, mountaintop removal destroys historic mountain ranges, poisons water supplies and pollutes the air with coal and rock dust,” said renowned climate scientist James Hansen, who was arrested in today’s protest at the White House. “Mountaintop removal, providing only a small fraction of our energy, can and should be abolished. The time for half measures and caving in to polluting industries must end.”
Here’s our buddy Jimbo, looking dapper in a fedora, tie, dockers, and cuffs:
Jimbo’s starting a rap sheet:
June 23, 2009 Dr. James Hansen of NASA GISS arrested
James Hansen and unidentified woman under arrest by WV state trooper. Photo credit: Antrim Caskey, Rainforest Action Network Field Photography
I wonder if he still thinks the west side highway will be underwater due to sea level rise in 20 years?
And as an added bonus, from the Climate is not Weather except when we say it is Department, the Wonk Room has a link to this story:
Meanwhile, Los Angeles hit an all-time record 113°…
h/t to Tom Nelson and WUWT reader Ron de Haan
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Never though I would agree with Hansen. Good on you Jim. Murray
For though read thought.
He should be deported.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy!
Isn’t there some kind of “morals” clause in NASA contracts that forbids repeat convicts from serving or getting contracts?
Wait, wasn’t yesterday a work day? A national holiday I missed, perhaps?
If not, I trust Hansen booked a couple of days vacation to get arrested.
When I worked for the government many years ago an arrest like this would have resulted in my being fired. I would have expected it, and I would have deserved it.
My how things seem to have changed.
It’s interesting that CO2 itself is apparently no longer a big issue with Hansen.
Where is “LA” measured? LAX? How big was aviation back in 1877, when this series began according to the article?
E.M.Smith says:
September 28, 2010 at 10:46 am
Isn’t there some kind of “morals” clause in NASA contracts that forbids repeat convicts from serving or getting contracts?
I recommend short editorial by Paul Craig Roberts (former R. Reagan adviser):
The Collapse of Western Morality
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=21158
(…) Americans will be the first people sent straight to Hell while thinking that they are the salt of the earth. (…)
Regards
…I’d like to see Hansen try that stunt in China!
However, I agree, mountaintop clearing is nasty business. We should really push for more natural gas production. With all the new sources & fields, natural gas is an energy winner in the US.
Hansen and his ilk protested US nuclear development, and now they weep *BOO HOO HOO!* for more nukes to offset GHG. Be careful what you wish for, Doc.
I’m just puzzled by the fact that there is no person above this clown, who can stop him from dragging NASA ( once fine organisation) like dirty rag through a pile of sh$$t.
LOL!!!
I would call these guys, obviously, not tea-baggers but POT-SMOKERS
What is it the NGO behind?
Arrested for demonstrating, wuwt?
I think it is outrageous and everyone, no matter what view they have on agw, should support Hansen and his/our right to freedom of speech.
Arrested for demonstrating, this is USA not China?
They have to put the mountains back together according with EPA statutes, so this is a red herring. Rock dust??? Pulleeeaze. He is trying to redeem himself after all the egg-in-face lying. Don’t fall for this, good people. They will probably show a crippled eagle at the bottom of a scree fall, claiming it is mining, even though it may have been crippled by a windmill.
I wonder if the DA can add on fraud charges similar to M. Mann in Virginia?
I wonder, do you think that NASA GISS has a charge number set up so that Jimbo can properly annotate his time sheet and get paid for his political activism and subsequent incarceration?
Przemysław Pawełczyk says:
September 28, 2010 at 10:53 am
I said, a few days ago.“Chaos is the ANTI-ETHOS of the ideologists”, this is why they fear ORDER in the universe, laws which govern it, and this is why they reject the traditional symbols which represent those universal laws, like the symbol of the CROSS at schools. This drives them really MAD.
We are already at the Armageddon field, in the battle against evil; that is why we have congregated here, at WUWT, many just intuitively joining the right side.
Regardless of his AGW views I fully support him on this one.
Someone please find a time machine and send these hippies back to the sixties (1860’s would be fine).
Djozar says:
September 28, 2010 at 11:31 am
1860?, then to the FAR-WEST…..they will welcome them with tar and feathers!
Good article that you linked to PP.
Good man Hansen: IMO he deserves a Nobel.
While I despise the destruction of whole watershed ecosystems with this mining method (if you can call it that) I really don’t think I’d want Hansen or any of the global warming crowd to ride in and steal the issue to “CO2”. Go do your own protest Hansen! This is a real environmental issue.
björn they weren’t arrested for protesting or for what they were saying.
“Protesters were arrested after they refused orders from Law Enforcement to leave the sidewalk on Pennsylvania Avenue. A few were charged with crossing a police line.”
Apparently they were obstructing the sidewalk and enterance to the White House. Also obviously they knew what they were doing because what good is a protest where no one is arrested. You need those arrests to get your story in the paper. I am sure the protesters would have keep pushing the envelope until they got arrested, it was their goal to get arrested.
Do you get arrested for protesting in the USA? I understood arrest was for doing something against a law. Either he was arrested illegally or he was committing an offence while protesting. The latter makes him look like some kind of beligerant nut.
In the immortal words of Bugs Bunny, “what a maroon!”. Hansen needs to seek treatment for his drama queenery. Back when I worked for the feds, this would have gotten me fired.