<div><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jun/23/fossilfuels.climatechange">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jun/23/fossilfuels.climatechange</a></div>
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<p>Hansen will use the symbolically charged 20th anniversary of his <a href="http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Environment/documents/2008/06/23/ClimateChangeHearing1988.pdf"><font color="#005689">groundbreaking speech</font></a> (pdf) to the US Congress - in which he was among the first to sound the alarm over the reality of global warming - to argue that radical steps need to be taken immediately if the "perfect storm" of irreversible climate change is not to become inevitable. </p>
<p>Speaking before Congress again, he will accuse the chief executive officers of companies such as <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/may/28/climatechange.fossilfuels"><font color="#005689">ExxonMobil</font></a> and Peabody Energy of being fully aware of the disinformation about climate change they are spreading. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jun/23/climatechange.carbonemissions"><font color="#005689">In an interview with the Guardian</font></a> he said: "When you are in that kind of position, as the CEO of one the primary players who have been putting out misinformation even via organisations that affect what gets into school textbooks, then I think that's a crime."</p>
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<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hansen">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hansen</a></p>
<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Trials_for_fossil_fuel_chiefs">Trials for fossil fuel chiefs</span></h3>
<p>In 2008 interviews with <i><a title="ABC News" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_News"><font color="#5a3696">ABC News</font></a></i>, <i><a title="The Guardian" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian"><font color="#002bb8">The Guardian</font></a></i>, and in a separate op-ed, Hansen has called for putting <a title="Fossil fuel" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_fuel"><font color="#002bb8">fossil fuel</font></a> company executives, including the CEOs of <a title="ExxonMobil" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExxonMobil"><font color="#002bb8">ExxonMobil</font></a> and <a class="mw-redirect" title="Peabody Coal" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peabody_Coal"><font color="#002bb8">Peabody Coal</font></a>, on trial for "<a class="mw-redirect" title="High crimes" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_crimes"><font color="#002bb8">high crimes</font></a> against humanity and nature", on the grounds that these and other fossil-fuel companies had actively spread doubt and misinformation about <a title="Global warming" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming"><font color="#002bb8">global warming</font></a>, in the same way that <a title="Tobacco" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco"><font color="#002bb8">tobacco</font></a> companies tried to hide the link between smoking and cancer.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-abc20ylater_79-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hansen#cite_note-abc20ylater-79"><font color="#5a3696"><span>[</span>80<span>]</span></font></a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-guardtrial_80-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hansen#cite_note-guardtrial-80"><font color="#5a3696"><span>[</span>81<span>]</span></font></a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ww20ylater_81-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hansen#cite_note-ww20ylater-81"><font color="#5a3696"><span>[</span>82<span>]</span></font></a></sup></p>
<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Arrest_during_protest_in_West_Virginia">Arrest during protest in West Virginia</span></h3>
<p>On June 23, 2009, James Hansen, along with 30 other <a class="mw-redirect" title="Protester" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protester"><font color="#002bb8">protesters</font></a> including actress <a title="Daryl Hannah" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_Hannah"><font color="#002bb8">Daryl Hannah</font></a>, were arrested on <a title="Misdemeanor" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misdemeanor"><font color="#002bb8">misdemeanor</font></a> charges of obstructing police and impeding traffic, during a protest against <a title="Mountaintop removal mining" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountaintop_removal_mining"><font color="#002bb8">mountaintop removal mining</font></a> in <a title="Raleigh County, West Virginia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raleigh_County,_West_Virginia"><font color="#002bb8">Raleigh County, West Virginia</font></a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-82"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hansen#cite_note-82"><font color="#5a3696"><span>[</span>83<span>]</span></font></a></sup> The protesters intended to enter the property of <a class="mw-redirect" title="Massey Energy Company" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massey_Energy_Company"><font color="#002bb8">Massey Energy Company</font></a>, but were blocked by a crowd of several hundred coal miners and supporters.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-83"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hansen#cite_note-83"><font color="#5a3696"><span>[</span>84<span>]</span></font></a></sup> Hansen said that mountaintop removal for coal mining "[provides] only a small fraction of our energy" and "should be abolished."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-NYT.E_84-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hansen#cite_note-NYT.E-84"><font color="#5a3696"><span>[</span>85<span>]</span></font></a></sup> Hansen called on President <a title="Barack Obama" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama"><font color="#002bb8">Barack Obama</font></a> to abolish mountaintop coal mining.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-85"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hansen#cite_note-85"><font color="#5a3696"><span>[</span>86<span>]</span></font></a></sup></p>
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