We are getting towards the sharp end when this type of thing happens from usually conservative people.

>>Over 1,000 scientists from 25 countries took part in the Science Rebellion’s demonstrations last week.

Over 1,000 scientists from 25 different countries staged protests last week following the release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s new report. The report warned that rapid and deep cuts to greenhouse gas emissions are necessary by 2025 to avoid catastrophic climate effects.

The group, called the Scientist Rebellion, writes in a letter that “current actions and plans are grossly inadequate, and even these obligations are not being met.” Their protests “highlight the urgency and injustice of the climate and ecological crisis,” per a statement from the organization.

In Los Angeles, scientists including Peter Kalmus, a NASA climate scientist with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, chained themselves to the JP Morgan Chase building.

“We’ve been trying to warn you guys for so many decades,” Kalmus says, his voice shaking. “The scientists of the world have been being ignored. And it’s gotta stop. We’re going to lose everything.”

They were met by about 100 police officers in riot gear and arrested, reports Salon’s Eric Schank.

Kalmus has written several opinion pieces in the Guardian about climate change, calling for the end of the fossil fuel industry and a switch to renewables.

“It’s now the eleventh hour and I feel terrified for my kids, and terrified for humanity,” he writes in a Guardian op-ed. “I feel deep grief over the loss of forests and corals and diminishing biodiversity. But I’ll keep fighting as hard as I can for this Earth, no matter how bad it gets, because it can always get worse. And it will continue to get worse until we end the fossil fuel industry and the exponential quest for ever more profit at the expense of everything else.”

Scientists around the world expressed similar fears during protests last week, and demanded rapid action to address climate change from their governments.

Scientist Rebellion protesters in Washington, D.C. chained themselves to the White House fence. Spanish scientists threw fake blood over the facade of the National Congress. Panamanian scientists staged demonstrations at various embassies, and German protesters glued themselves to a bridge. In Malawi, scientists held a teach-in at Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources, per the Scientist Rebellion statement.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-stage-worldwide-climate-protests-after-ipcc-report-180979913/

I was likely too much to ask that life gets better for everything as our knowledge and technological capabilities increase
Human nature could mean we are incapable of the change required.
I’m betting we are likely not to survive this century as the advanced civilisation we currently are

Cymek said:

I was likely too much to ask that life gets better for everything as our knowledge and technological capabilities increase
Human nature could mean we are incapable of the change required.
I’m betting we are likely not to survive this century as the advanced civilisation we currently are

I think we might last a little longer, but things will get incredibly tough and many will die.

Just off topic for a sec but still related. There is a Professor currently claiming that if all countries honored their IPCC co2 reductions, we would have only a livable 1.9 degree C increase by the end of the century, but these calculations might be alright if we were the sole emitter of greenhouse gases. But unfortunately that is no longer the case as due to current rising temperatures, vast amounts of co2 and methane are being released from permafrost and other sources without our input, therefore the Professor’s calculations are pointless without their inclusion which I might add are accelerating rapidly and are the beginning of a feedback system beyond our control. We are moving into totally uncharted waters where the outcome is unknown and unpredictable and IMO this dumbing down of the real situation is only making us more complacent, when we need a good kicking to make as do big things quickly if we are to hold onto any control we might have, rather than letting any small chance of remediation slip through our fingers.

PermeateFree said:

Just off topic for a sec but still related. There is a Professor currently claiming that if all countries honored their IPCC co2 reductions, we would have only a livable 1.9 degree C increase by the end of the century, but these calculations might be alright if we were the sole emitter of greenhouse gases. But unfortunately that is no longer the case as due to current rising temperatures, vast amounts of co2 and methane are being released from permafrost and other sources without our input, therefore the Professor’s calculations are pointless without their inclusion which I might add are accelerating rapidly and are the beginning of a feedback system beyond our control. We are moving into totally uncharted waters where the outcome is unknown and unpredictable and IMO this dumbing down of the real situation is only making us more complacent, when we need a good kicking to make us do big things quickly if we are to hold onto any control we might have, rather than letting any small chance of remediation slip through our fingers.

what’s the point?
Far from paying any attention whatsoever
“THEY”‘re arresting the scientist instead of listening to them.

that loud noise you heard
was “The Paris Accord” hitting a stone wall

Ogmog said:

:-)

Climate scientist on hunger strike ‘after being refused bail’

A scientist who was arrested during a climate change protest is on hunger strike after being denied bail, it has been claimed.

Activist group Extinction Rebellion claims Emma Smart, an ecologist, was detained on Thursday during a protest with 24 fellow scientists at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy in London.

Smart, who is also refusing water, is being held at Charing Cross Police Station waiting for a court hearing on Saturday, the group said.

The Metropolitan Police have been contacted for a comment.

Along with eight other scientists, Smart has been charged with criminal damage after pasting scientific papers to the government building and glueing themselves to its glass frontage.

Their protests form part of XR’s April Rebellion, which is calling for an end to all new fossil fuel investments immediately.

Emma was also one of the Highway 9 who spent time in prison over Christmas for breaking an injunction with Insulate Britain.

She said during her trial last year: “This court may see me as being on the wrong side of the law, but in my heart I know I am on the right side of history. I will not be a bystander.”

Emma’s husband, Andrew Smith, said: “What kind of world do we live in when scientists are forced to put themselves into positions of arrest and hunger strike to be heard?

“And why has she not been released? This was a minor crime with no disruption to the public. Her treatment is disproportionate to her crime.

“Our politicians are aware of the severity of the climate emergency, every decision should be informed by science, not coerced for profit and greed.

“Emma knows what’s at stake if we don’t stop fossil fuel investments and she is taking a stand for her nieces’ future and all those around the world suffering now from this crisis.

“Everyone must stand with her now and come out on the streets to show the government that change is coming whether they like it or not.”

Air quality scientist Pete Knapp from Scientists for XR said: “The science is totally clear: we must not drill for new oil and gas. Instead we must move to clean energy as quickly as possible.

“But our government only last week declared it will licence new fossil fuel exploration in spite of repeated and dire warnings from scientists that this will lead to disaster. This is the flagrant dereliction of duty that Emma is calling out, and they are locking her up for it.”