SOME scientists, including James Hansen, Gail Whiteman, Phillip Williamson, Peter Kalmus and Michael Mann, have taken part in climate protests or acts of civil disobedience to advocate for urgent action on climate change. They have shown that many in the scientific community feel a moral obligation to engage in activism for climate action.
For example, Hansen, a former National Aeronautics and Space Administration climate scientist, was arrested in 2011 during a protest against a coal export terminal. Whiteman was part of the Extinction Rebellion protests in London in 2019. Williamson, an expert in ocean biogeochemistry, was arrested during an Extinction Rebellion protest in London the same year. Kalmus, a NASA climate scientist, was arrested during a protest in Los Angeles in April 2022.
More than half of the 71,922 respondents strongly support the idea that scientists should communicate their findings to politicians , work closely with the latter to integrate scientific results into policymaking and be more involved in the policymaking process .The arrests of scientists Hansen, Whiteman, Williamson and Kalmus have drawn further attention to the urgent need for comprehensive climate policies and the crucial role of scientists in the climate movement.
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