From @connect in my Twitter feed today:
I count 39 in this photo, including half bodies at far left. IMHO, 39 angry activists don’t speak for the country. Hansen, seen standing at far left in the grey fedora, keeps coming back for more, time and again. I wonder if there is some sort of “Three strikes” law for people like him? I’m reminded of a line in the movie, The Shawshank Redemption:
Andy Dufresne:
Maybe you should try a new career.
Tommy Williams:
What’s that?
Andy Dufresne:
I said, since you don’t have much success as a thief, you should try a new career.
Ryan Maue has some interesting takes on the photo op:
Heh.
UPDATE: (h/t to Latitude and NJ_Snow_Fan) James E Hansen was arrested again today according to Washington Post story.http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/activists-arrested-at-white-house-protesting-keystone-pipeline/2013/02/13/8f0f1066-75fa-11e2-aa12-e6cf1d31106b_story.html
UPDATE2: Ryan Maue notes via FB messaging: mote first line of second page of WashPo article on Keystone XL:
“The protest was well orchestrated and had an exclusive air about it, bringing together the elite of the environmental movement.”
…this was a “by-invitation only” protest with 38-45 people. WaPo nails it.
Going by all the heavy coats, none of them raised a sweat getting there on foot.
I reckon that if they wanna do this again, just leave them to freeze to death proving just how much the climate’s warming. Ensure nobody cuts them loose.
Send in the KEYSTONE KOPS. Somebody had to say it.
Banner reads “LEAD ON CLIMATE” – this is obviously to keep temperatures down 😉
from Concise Oxford English Dictionary:
“lead2
n noun
1 a heavy bluish-grey soft ductile metal, the chemical element of atomic number 82. (Symbol: Pb)
Mods – please correct – should have been a carriage return between “lead” and “2”:
“lead
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It hasn’t escaped my keen eye that Devoted Hansen Fans Zeke and Mosher haven’t commented in this thread yet.
I wonder why.
Andrew
Mark T says:
February 13, 2013 at 9:14 pm
You misunderstand. I asked about the interview because if you had experienced one then you would know that your prospective employer or one of his agents had rewritten your resume and cover letter for you. Your prospective employer is no less concerned about criticism from employers, peers, and employees than the next person. Embarrass him/her and you are toast.
Hansen gets away with his antics because his employer is as nutty as he is. Hansen might as well be working for some activist law firm that loves media attention. His association with NASA is rebranding NASA. Apparently, NASA wants the rebranding.
Looks like Ken Salazar there in his trademark Stetson, chatting with Hansen. He is carrying a white plastic hand-cinch the protesters apparently used to tie themselves to the fence. Did he join them in bondage? Making up for his public lands development project?
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865573082/Environmental-groups-challenge-Salazars-solar-plans.html
To Mark T:
You wrote, in part: “Because what he does on his own time, not on federal property, is his own business as long as he does not represent himself in the official capacity of his position.”
I’m sorry, I don’t buy this as giving him blanket permission to do climate activism.
The only reason he has any standing whatever as some form of expert is
because of his official position. Implicitly, he is making a statement in
an official capacity. Notice that the news item quoted by Latitude
identifies him as a “prominent climate scientist”.
The real reason he hasn’t been dismissed is because during the Bush administration,
he made a huge stink about being “silenced”. Parenthetically, being “silenced”
did not prevent him from giving over 1400 interviews to news organizations.
Seemingly, the Bush administration was buffaloed by this false claim of being
“silenced” and did not want to make his claims seem true.
Of course, the Obama administration agrees with his activism, so the chances of
his being dismissed or prosecuted could be measured with a micrometer.
I remember Daryl Hannah doing an interview on BBC Breakfast a few years ago and it was easily one of the most disturbing, incoherent interviews i’ve ever seen. To claim she’s as dumb as a box of rocks would be a huge disservice to geology. Someone easily convinced her to take the urgent action blue pill, the red pill is made by evil oil companies and Republicans who shoot kittens with ‘assault’ rifles.
I love how the UK media reported it as nothing more than Taylor Swift’s ex-boyfriend got arrested for sitting on his ass and looking like a mug.
Is it just me, or are they psychically holding hands?
Since Zeke and Mosher won’t explain what we see here, I will:
You can’t agitate dumb people with the technicalities of science.
You have to wear stupid hats and get yourself arrested to reach that demographic.
Andrew