Friday, April 17, 2009

James Hansen on civil disobedience against coal plants and other issues | CEJournal
The documentary film crew asked Hansen whether he favored civil disobedience in demonstrations against coal-fired power plants. He partially evaded the question (and Susan and I didn’t have an opportunity to follow up to try to pin him down), but watch the video and you will see that he didn’t rule it out.
So which is it, 3.75 or 5.2? - Telegraph
Mr Hadow spends up to four hours every day drilling through the ice at up to ten sites and then taking measurements of the thickness of the ice and snow, salinity and other critical information.

So far the thickest measurements has been 3.75 metres but most are around half that.
UPDATE 1-Alleged lack of permanent Arctic ice allegedly surprises explorers  | Reuters
Hadow has a manual drill that can go down 5.2 metres and so far has hit ice that deep just four times.
New Milepost for Arctic Sea Ice Extent « Watts Up With That?
Two of the Arctic ice sites show April 16 ice at recent record levels.

1 comment:

MAS1916 said...

Civil disobedience was once hailed as a brave statement made by individuals exercising their rights under the First Amendment against a tyrannical government.

Now that the tyrannical government has been popularly elected, we'll see how these folks take to the streets and protest against their own.