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Oct 21 • 14 tweets • 7 min read
It has been a massive week for scientific activism, with a series of major actions by @ScientistRebel1 in Germany, and a court case for members of @ScientistsX in the UK

Here's a summary🧵
In Germany, @ScientistRebel1 members came from across Europe to #UniteAgainstClimateFailure

In a coalition with @DebtforClimate and others, they carried out an amazing series of audacious actions – remember, these are scientists! 2/
On Sunday, 50 scientists disrupted the opening of the World Health Summit, with many arrests 3/
Here’s a personal account of that action from one of the arrested scientists, @tessalsantos 4/
On Monday, scientists and @DebtforCLimate activists occupied the German finance ministry calling for debt cancellation for the Global South 5/
Here’s an account of that action from economic historian @MGSchmelzer 6/
Then, on Tuesday, 60 scientists blocked roads, pasted scientific papers and threw paint the Ministry of Transport 7/
On Wednesday - Day 4! - scientists pasted papers and threw paint at a Volkswagen factory 8/
While 9 scientists glued on in a Porsche showroom 9/
They occupied it for over 40 hours, before being arrested. Here’s testimony from @GGrimalda 10/
In the UK meanwhile, 5 members of @Scientist X were in court today for gluing on to a government ministry in April

They were found NOT GUILTY! 11/
And… yesterday our preprint making the case for emergency activism by life scientists was accepted for publication 12/
All this at a time when science is increasingly ignored by governments, to the frustrations of leading scientists like IPCC author @schipper_lisa

If we want science-based policy, we must fight for it. Join @ScientistRebel1 and @ScientistsX 13/
We published the data & written our warnings, but we’ve just been ignored. I hope seeing so many scientists going to such desperate lengths to get others to listen will at least make a few people think about how serious this is

So much love and gratitude for all involved ❤️❤️

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Jul 28
*New paper* Just published in @ConLetters with @JMBecologist and @Thierryaaron -

“The recent past is not a reliable guide to future climate impacts”

Here’s a🧵on some of the key points…
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
The key take home is that “ the recent past is not a reliable guide to future change, and that conservation must look to the future if it is to successfully anticipate and mitigate biodiversity loss” 2/n
Our paper is a response to a recent policy perspective by Caro et al. , which used historical trends to conclude that there is 'an inconvenient misconception' in conservation biology that climate change is a key driver of species loss 3/n
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
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Jul 20
1/ My interview with @SkyNews yesterday, in four parts

“This is not the new normal. It is going to get worse and worse and worse until we stop burning fossil fuels and stop destroying nature”
2/ “I remain convinced that the only way to force our leaders to take the required action is to get out on the streets in huge numbers”
3/ “Denialism is common, the media must take some responsibility for that. For decades media organisations such as Sky News, such as yourselves, have been downplaying the risks and helping ridicule environmentalists for warning us about this”
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Jul 19
Seeing lots of reports of out of control fires in today's record-breaking UK heat, so I thought I'd compile some.

Please add others I've missed.

This is round the corner from me in Norfolk - climate change symbolically blocking roads
edp24.co.uk/news/traffic/a…
Wild Ken Hill nature reserve on the West Norfolk coast
Dartford, Kent
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May 27
Thrilling to see many new direct action groups around the world seemingly inspired by Insulate Britain and Just Stop Oil, and using similar tactics such as motorway blockades and/or having a simple demand right there in the name

A brief 🧵
In Canada, @saveoldgrowth have been blocking highways and disrupting meetings to try and stop deforestation 2/
In Sweden, Aterstall Vatmarker @vatmarker have been blocking roads and disrupting football matches to call for the restoration of wetlands 3/
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Dec 17, 2021
“I am not convinced that climate change is a huge threat to many species” is an extraordinary thing to hear from a leading conservation scientist, from Australia, in 2021.

It's also dangerous and needs to be countered, so here goes

🧵1.
We’ve all seen some of the disasters that biodiversity has suffered from climate-related events in recent years, from the 3 billion animals killed in the 19/20 Australian bushfires to the 1 billion animals boiled in the 2021 North American heat dome.
2.
 theguardian.com/environment/20…
Less extreme weather events can also cause huge mortality in individual species. For example, in 2015 high temperature and humidity killed 200,000 saiga (a critically endangered antelope) in a mass mortality event.
3.
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
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Oct 11, 2021
A huge fire has ripped through one of the world's most important forests

Madagascar's extraordinary Menabe forest is the only home of three amazing animals, and there's now only 5000 hectares left

When it has gone, three species will be extinct in the wild 1/4
Madame Berthe's Mouse Lemur is the world's smallest primate, weighing little over an ounce

Photos @JaspaMadagaska 2/4
The kapidolo or flat-tailed tortoise might just be the world's prettiest chelonian. For now at least

Photo Jonathan Mays on Flickr 3/4
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