What It’s Going To Take

James Hansen, widely recognized as the nation’s foremost climate scientist, was arrested today for protesting mountaintop removal coal mining.  I’ve blogged about Hansen here and here, and was so moved by today’s news (via Alan Durning’s fb update) that I couldn’t stop myself from coming out of retirement for ten minutes.  No doubt we’ll be seeing more and more action like this as climate change progresses.


[ Climate scientist James Hansen being arrested for standing up against insanity.  Photo credit:  Antrim Caskey ]