This dude is baaaaad. I’m talking Samuel L Jackson in any action movie that he’s ever been in kind of bad. Or maybe, a better comparison for Hansen would be a modern day Gandhi, without all the fasting…

Dr. Hansen is one of the foremost and well-respected climate scientist on the planet, the head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and an activist. He’s been warning the US Congress for decades about the dangers of human-caused climate change and has been one of the most vocal critics of burning coal in the past few years. Why? Because he identifies our reliance and continued burning of coal as the single most dangerous form of fuel on the planet – dirty for our lungs, dirty for our air, and volatile for our climate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQwr__EX7AI

Check out Dr. Hansen sharing his DOT – calling on young people to lower our emissions and raise our voices!

He fully understands the dangers of our dirty energy and is standing up – mainly out of concern for his grandchildren – and speaking out. His mission is to inform the public about the realities of climate change in the absence of real government action over the past several decades and the continued efforts of the fossil fuel companies to misinform (and disinform) with advertising and lobbying.

We need more heroes like Dr. Hansen.

What’s your DOT – your Do One Thing – to help the environment and cool the climate? Tell us and tell your friends!