I checked first, thinking this was some April Fools joke, it appears legit. (h/t to Tom Nelson and Skiphil)
Climate Alarmist Jim Hansen leaving NASA on Wed. to devote himself to legal and political activism:
Hansen retiring from NASA to press legal and activist efforts
At the same time, retirement will allow Dr. Hansen to press his cause in court. He plans to take a more active role in lawsuits challenging the federal and state governments over their failure to limit emissions, for instance, as well as in fighting the development in Canada of a particularly dirty form of oil extracted from tar sands.
“As a government employee, you can’t testify against the government,” he said in an interview.
In the interview and in subsequent e-mails, Dr. Hansen made it clear that his new independence would allow him to take steps he could not have taken as a government employee. He plans to lobby European leaders — who are among the most concerned about climate change — to impose a tax on oil derived from tar sands. Its extraction results in greater greenhouse emissions than conventional oil.
Dr. Hansen says he senses the beginnings of a mass movement on climate change, led by young people. Once he finishes his final papers as a NASA employee, he intends to give it his full support.
“At my age,” he said, “I am not worried about having an arrest record.”
This is where DAGW began, and this is where it will ultimately end. Ideology, political activism, and, failing to accomplish its designs within deliberative democratic institutions among accountable politicians, the courts.
Dr. Hansen says he senses the beginnings of a mass movement on climate change, led by young people.
Yup. This is where the sixties began. The youth revolution, the sexual revolution, the anti-American, anti-anti-communist anti-Vietnam war movement, radical environmentalism, Green chemophobia and technophobia, postmodernist anti-rationalism, all to be led by young people (really led by provocateurs among their elders, but never mind). To be young is to be passionate, committed, idealistic, and to feel immortal. Its also to be intellectually, emotionally, and psychologically immature, by definition, showing again that, on the Left, the less one actually knows about something, the more qualified one is to lead a march, shout through a bullhorn, chant a slogan, and hold a sign in a march along Pennsylvania Avenue.