[PAA-Discuss] America's Top Climate Scientist Jailed in West Virginia

[Juli3 at aol.com]

Dear  Juli,  
On  Tuesday Dr. James Hansen, America's top climate scientist, was  jailed 
in West Virginia because of his views about the urgency of  addressing 
global warming, standing up to the coal industry and _ending mountaintop  removal 
mining_ (http://ga3.org/ct/r12EAWd1uEDt/) .  
I  should probably tell you up front that it was my fault he was  arrested. 
 
I  asked Dr. Hansen to join me--along with coalfield resident and  Goldman 
Prize winner, Judy Bonds, actress Daryl Hannah, and more  than two dozen 
Appalachian residents and allies--in an act of  civil disobedience to protest 
mountaintop removal coal mining. We  took our protest to Massey Energy, a 
leading mountaintop removal  coal company, in Coal River Valley, West Virginia 
to confront the  repugnant, toxic, and irreversibly destructive mining 
practice.   
We  got arrested to call for an end to mountaintop removal coal  mining. 
Coal is the single biggest cause of global warming, and  mountaintop removal, 
which is devastating streams, mountains,  forests and communities, is the 
first essential chink in coal's  armor.  
Now  I want to ask you to _join  me_ (http://ga3.org/ct/r12EAWd1uEDt/) 

. But I don't need you to go to jail, yet.  
I  know you want to make a difference and _the most important  step you can 
take right now to help save our climate is to ask  your friends to join us_ 
(http://ga3.org/ct/r12EAWd1uEDt/)  in building the biggest  network of 
people possible that is powerfully committed to helping  end mountaintop removal 
this year.  
As  an important step towards moving beyond coal--which we must do to  
avert the worst effects of climate change--we need to stop the  devastating 
practice of mountaintop removal as quickly as  possible.  
Over  the next several weeks and months, RAN is planning to take on  
mountaintop removal like never before, but everything we're  planning depends on 
_you helping us to  get as many people as possible involved and committed  
now_ (http://ga3.org/ct/r12EAWd1uEDt/) .  
So  _if you're up to  it_ (http://ga3.org/ct/r12EAWd1uEDt/) , I'm confident 
that this will be the last year  that we destroy mountains for dirty coal.  
Thank  you,  
Michael  Brune
Executive Director 
Rainforest Action  Network
_
Tell  your friends: this can be the last year that we destroy mountains  
for dirty coal! _ (http://ga3.org/ct/r12EAWd1uEDt/)  
_
Check  out the latest posts from RAN's blog, The  Understory:_ 
(http://ga3.org/ct/f12EAWd1uEDO/)  
_
Arrested  in West Virginia: A First-Person  Account_ 
(http://ga3.org/ct/fd2EAWd1uEDW/) 

_
Watch  the Freedom From Oil Tour Video Diaries!_ 
(http://ga3.org/ct/f72EAWd1uEDI/) 
 
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