jtotheizzoe:

James Hansen, head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, was arrested yesterday as part of the ongoing protests against the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.

That’s what I call putting your money where your scientific mouth is.

(via Discovery News)

James Hansen is a bad ass. I attended a lecture he gave at the Bell House a few years about his book Storms of my Grandchildren. He spoke with the kind of conviction and spirit that I have only seen a few other times from scientists. His book is full of good information, read it.