Choice Words for James Hansen From Big Coal Exec

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onJun 25, 2008 @ 20:45 PDT

Andy Revkin’s New York Times Dot Earth has published a letter from Vic Svec, Senior Vice President for Peabody Energy, the largest private coal company in the world, reacting to the statement made earlier this week by NASA‘s Dr. James Hansen that top executives of coal and oil companies should be tried for โ€œcrimes against humanity and nature.โ€

Here’s an excerpt of the Svec letter:

โ€œBlaming big oil and big coal for the broad array of opinions about climate change is disingenuous. If he would imprison those who donโ€™t march in lockstep with his views, the jails would be very, very big. It would include thousands of scientists and university professors and the likes of the president of the Czech Republic, a former founder of Greenpeace and the former founder of The Weather Channel.โ€

Read the entire letter from Vic Svec on Andy’s Dot Earthย site.

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