Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Plan B: scientists get radical in bid to halt global warming ‘catastrophe’

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5908377.ece

THE director of a Nasa space laboratory will this week lead thousands of climate change campaigners through Coventry in an extraordinary intervention in British politics.

James Hansen plans to use Thursday's Climate Change Day of Action to put pressure on Gordon Brown to wake up to the threat of climate change - by halting the construction of new power stations and the expansion of airports, with schemes such as the third runway at Heathrow.