On Saturday, the Wheeling Intelligencer reports that Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship issued a debate challenge to NASA scientist, James Hansen. The topic: climate change/ global warming and its relation to West Virginia. Hansen, yet to respond, is a leader of opposition activities against coal operations, as well as a professor at Columbia University.
This challenge comes in light of a recent protest in Boone County by terroristic environmentalists, many of which were arrested on several counts after the incident. Hansen, with many of these radical organizations, protests against surface mining and the coal production that is vital to West Virginia's livelihood.
Blankenship is to be commended for issuing a challenge for civil debate to Hansen, instead of militant protest. Massey acts within the law in its operations, rergardless of your feelings about coal production. Under the shadow of Obama's radical Cap and Trade policy, I hope Hansen accepts this opportunity to talk about real facts that affect every citizen in West Virginia.
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