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NASA’s Dr. James Hansen joined in an act of civil disobedience against mountaintop removal mining by attempting to trespass on the property of Massey Energy near Coal River Mountain in West Virginia, and was arrested along with other protesters including Darryl Hannah and former US Representative Ken Hechler (D-WV).

The new president’s budget represents the climate of change Obama has brought to Washington, DC. From reducing the deficit by 1/3 to allocating $634 billion for health reform over the next decade.

Hansen believes the world is “imminent peril” and calls the Kyoto climate treaty “weak tea”. The grandfather of climate change believes carbon trading is greenwashing, and Obama must act within his first administration to halt climate change.

Even though the $700 billion bailout for Wall St. was rejected by the House of Representatives, one can wonder what a $700 billion bailout would do for the environment.

This week, typical of of the Bush administration’s ineptitude, the EPA decided to take no new action on global warming emissions. Republican California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger slammed the Bush administration’s decision to not take action as further evidence it did not believe in global warming.

NASA scientist James Hansen, the man who first told Congress the planet was warming 20 years ago, declared the bottom line for our planet is 350 parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Our current level: 383 parts per million! “The evidence indicates we’ve aimed too high - that the safe upper limit for atmospheric CO2 is no more than 350 ppm.”

Source: truthout.org