{"id":1416824,"date":"2022-04-03T10:45:27","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T14:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1416824"},"modified":"2022-04-03T10:45:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T14:45:30","slug":"scientists-demand-climate-revolution-with-promise-of-civil-disobedience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scientists-demand-climate-revolution-with-promise-of-civil-disobedience\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Demand Climate Revolution with Promise of Civil &#039;Disobedience&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fscientists-demand-climate-revolution-with-promise-of-civil-disobedience%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1416824&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Scientists are mad as hell and demand their claims of looming climate catastrophe are taken seriously. That\u2019s the message released Sunday by a\u00a0loosely federated global network of scientists and academics who plan\u00a0\u201chigh levels of disobedience\u201d to highlight what they say is a planet in decay.<\/p>\n<p>Members of <a href=\"https:\/\/scientistrebellion.com\/\">Scientist Rebellion<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20220403-scientists-risk-arrest-to-sound-climate-alarm\">told<\/a> AFP their non-violent actions are timed to coincide with an upcoming report from the U.N.\u2019s climate science advisory panel laying out options for slashing carbon pollution.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Scientist Rebellion will operate in two dozen countries. It targets universities, research institutes and major scientific journals, demanding they speak out at what is described as the \u201cexistential threat of global warming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group promises to block streets from April 4th \u2013 9th \u201con all continents with over 1000 scientists and academics\u201d with associated acts of civil disobedience inspired by the eco-extremist Extinction Rebellion lobby.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Climate activists demanded an end to capitalism, &#8220;black liberation&#8221; and the abolition of police at a COP26 demonstration in Glasgow. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kmlzWeKxBy\">https:\/\/t.co\/kmlzWeKxBy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1457372033713643522?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 7, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cScientists are particularly powerful messengers, and we have a responsibility to show leadership,\u201d said Charlie Gardner, a conservation scientist at the University of Kent specialised in tropical biodiversity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are failing in that responsibility. If we say it\u2019s an emergency, we have to act like it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Starting Monday, the group hopes to see \u201chigh levels of disobedience\u201d with more than 1,000 scientists worldwide taking part in direct non-violent action against government and academic institutions.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20498888\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/04\/climate-change-environmentalists-protest-activists-fossil-fuel-getty.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Activists attend the Climate Justice March in New York City on November 13, 2021. (KENA BETANCUR\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Scientist Rebellion was founded in 2020 by two physics PhD students at St Andrews College in Scotland, inspired in part by the more broadly based Extinction Rebellion, AFP outlined.<\/p>\n<p>The group\u2019s first significant action with more than 100 scientists, in March 2021, targeted the British Royal Society and science publishing behemoth Springer Nature.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe basically pasted enlarged copies of their journal articles calling for rapid transformative change onto their offices,\u201d said Kyle Topher, an environmental scientist from Australia and full-time activist for the group.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">At least three activists were arrested by police in London during the annual \u201cClimate Strike.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IwwhwgLHTA\">pic.twitter.com\/IwwhwgLHTA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1228728420911210497?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 15, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAs scientists, we tend to be risk averse \u2014 we don\u2019t want to risk our jobs, our reputations, and our time,\u201d said Rose Abramoff, a soil scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Knoxville, Tennessee and a Scientist Rebellion member.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it is no longer sufficient to do our research and expect others to read it and understand the severity and urgency of the climate crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The aim of the group is to \u201cmake this crisis impossible to ignore\u201d, she added.<\/p>\n<p><em>AFP contributed to this story<\/em><\/p>\n<h5><em><span>Follow Simon Kent on Twitter:<\/span> <a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SunSimonKent\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @SunSimonKent<\/a> <span>or e-mail to: skent@breitbart.com<\/span><br \/><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists are mad as hell and demand their claims of looming climate catastrophe are taken seriously. 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