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Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Climate scientists are fed up with nobody taking them seriously.
UK scientists join the Extinction Rebellion climate change protests
ENVIRONMENT 7 October 2019
By Lilian Anekwe…
Charlie Gardner, a conservation scientist at the University of Kent, says he joined the organisation because he felt that his professional responsibility extended beyond “just studying and describing” the impact of climate change on biodiversity.
“We know what to do to save species, but the UK government is not giving us the funding to do it. I’ve done everything I possibly can professionally and personally, but none of that has worked, it’s all been a drop in the ocean. For me as a scientist this is necessary – and it is going to work.”
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Jennifer Rudd, a scientist at a UK university, says she had no choice but to join Extinction Rebellion “given everything I know about climate change”.
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Lee, who didn’t wish to give his full name, says he worked for a decade in climate science, but “we are now reaching the tipping point that we’ve always been fearful of”.
“It’s almost to the point when we can’t reverse it. This is our last chance. The social contract with the government has been broken and now there’s nothing left to do but rebel.”
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Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2219008-uk-scientists-join-the-extinction-rebellion-climate-change-protests/
Imagine if all the eco-economists, conservation scientists and climate modellers joined Extinction Rebellion and threatened to withdraw their services from society. How would we all cope?
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I haven’t read all the comments but I’m sure someone has already said, “The blind leading the blinded.”
If not, I just did.
the UK government is not giving us the funding to do it.
That pretty much sums it up, they just want more grant money.
“we are now reaching the tipping point that we’ve always been fearful of”.
By definition you can’t identify a “tipping point” until you have passed it, this statement isn’t science it’s scare mongering.
And these people call themselves scientists.
Billary Clinton would surely call those ordinary suburban people voting to leave europe and those who are climate change deniers… the Eu deplorables. Here in Ireland the same media who denounced voting deplorables who voted the ‘wrong’ way in two European referendums are now the prime enablers of denouncing anyone who disputes the extinction consensus. We are sleepwalking into an extinction alright…. of middle class sense. Greta-Gate.
New Scientist have been promoting Extinction Rebellion since October 2018, right from the beginning.
https://www.newscientist.com/search/?q=extinction+rebellion
Their top tipping point advisor is Kevin Anderson of the Tyndall Center for Climate Change Research.
“New Scientist” should re-brand as “New Age Scientism”
I wouldn’t even use it to line the floor of a budgie’s cage