A YouTube video has surfaced that features James Hansen -- director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies -- calling for participation in a March 2 protest in Washington, DC. [Editor's note: Details of the protest can be found at CapitolClimateAction.org, which is run by Greenpeace USA.]
The protest will feature training in non-violent protesting and legal briefings. A "green zone" will be set up for those who do not wish to risk arrest. Protesters plan to engage in what CapitolClimateAction.org calls the "largest mass civil disobedience for the climate in U.S. history" at the DC coal-fired power plant.
Dan Miller of the Heartland Institute is outraged that a government official such as Hansen would advocate involvement in such a protest.
"For a [high-ranking] federal government official...to urge this kind of lawbreaking is just absolutely stunning and reprehensible," Miller exclaims. "If Hansen wants to carry this jihad out, he ought to resign and go ahead and do it. But to lend the name of the federal government, to be on the federal government's payroll, to be using taxpayer money -- my money -- to advance this cause is unfair, unethical, and wrong."
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