Incredibly powerful words from
@DrEmilyGrossman
on why scientists are being forced to take direct action to be heard.
For anyone who still needs persuading that the media and our Government still haven't grasped the gravity of the climate & nature crisis
“Act as if everyone you know has just tested positive and you need to avoid them like - quite literally - the plague.”
Attached are screen shots of the full quote from a trusted doctor source in North London, reporting on the current situation there. Please share widely.
“I’ve reached a point where I now consider breaking the law the only ethically moral thing to do.”
Yes, Chris!!!! Thank you
@ChrisGPackham
for your courage and your leadership. I hear you and I’m with you. And thanks
@Channel4
for making this groundbreaking doc.
#ChrisPackhamC4
The 380+ academics backing Extinction Rebellion say they feel compelled to speak out. “The urgency of the crisis is now so great that many scientists feel, as humans, that we now have a moral duty to take radical action” Thanks
@Reuters
🙏
#ScientistsForXR
This is what extinction sounds like. “Bernie Krause has been recording wildlife sounds, or "soundscapes," for over 40 years. He’s charted how they’ve changed over the course of climate change. Listen for yourself: the rising silence speaks volumes” 😢
I’m sick of seeing this hypocrisy argument go round. Here’s a response, on behalf of myself and all of the amazing rebels out there on the streets, doing our best to protect your children from the devastation we are casually hurtling towards.
@XRLondon
@ExtinctionR
@XRebellionUK
Come on everyone. Let’s take this seriously. Who’s joining me in stopping flying? I’ve just persuaded a conference in Copenhagen to have me deliver my talk via Skype instead of in person💥 What are YOUR plans?
@TheClimateCC
@ScientistsX
This is my little sister Savanna. She is a doctor treating virus patients in Australia. I know it’s challenging but please do as she says. If you’re carrying the virus without knowing it, which many of us now are, staying home could save literally thousands of lives. Thank you 🙏
@HeidiBachram
I’m confused, what’s being reported is: “Hamas says that Palestinian groups have rejected the prospect of further hostage releases until Israel agrees to end the war in Gaza. But Israel has repeatedly rejected a permanent ceasefire until Hamas is defeated” is that not correct?
Let’s be clear here. Just because the government says it’s safe to go out now, it doesn’t mean it is. It means they’re ready for you to get sick. If your mental health / finances allow you to keep socially distancing, please do so. For all our sakes. 🙏
Success! Seems as though I’ve entered the ranks of those being slandered in order to try to make us sound too unstable to be speaking the truth about the climate and ecological emergency. I guess this means I’m doing something good! 🙌
@GretaThunberg
.
So I was totally prepared to be arrested... but it turns out the MET thought it wouldn’t exactly look great to arrest a small feisty brunette in a lab coat 😂. Didn’t stop them carting me off somewhat forcefully. But at least I told them off about it 🙌
“The notion of there being a climate emergency is the subject of some debate” WTAF
@BBCNews
@BBCr4today
??? The UN says so, the government says so, more than 13,000 scientists say so,even David Attenborough says so.This is CRIMINAL misreporting. Read this:
Big news. We’ve reached 100%. “The consensus among research scientists on anthropogenic global warming has grown to 100%, based on a review of 11,602 peer-reviewed articles on “climate change” and “global warming” published in the first 7 months of 2019.”
My favourite (but saddest) thing about this afternoon’s brilliant panel discussion on the climate and ecological emergency for the
@dailymirror
, was that every time I stopped talking,
@ChrisGPackham
sighed deeply and said: “She’s telling the truth”. 😢
#AspiesUnite
#TruthSeeker
Super proud of my brave little sister Sophie who is out fighting the virus today in a London hospital, trying to make sick people better. Please help protect her - and all the amazing NHS workers - by staying home. Thank you xx
Things are so bad that scientists like myself are feeling compelled to take radical action against government inaction on the climate and ecological crisis.
#COP26
#CopOut26
@ScientistsX
@ScientistRebel1
🌳🌍😢
Incredibly powerful words from
@DrEmilyGrossman
on why scientists are being forced to take direct action to be heard.
For anyone who still needs persuading that the media and our Government still haven't grasped the gravity of the climate & nature crisis
Gave my first secondary schools talk on the climate and ecological emergency today - I’ve done lots to primary kids or adults, but never teenagers. Was blown away by their passion and how much they know about what’s going on and how bad it really is. Far more than most adults.
Whilst I do not suport today’s action, if this is how people react when their train is delayed, how will they react when transport fails due to extreme weather? Or when food starts going up in price or is entirely unavailable? Society is not equipped to deal w/ climate breakdown.
The doctor who wrote this is my friend. I know him. He wrote these words late at night to his family. I’m sharing them so his words get seen by more people in order to save lives. If he gives his name he may lose his job. It’s happened before to NHS workers who speak out.
@HeidiBachram
Oh I see, you’re saying it’s that Hamas have rejected a temporary ceasefire in return for the hostages being returned, but only want a permanent one with no agreement for THEM to not keep attacking Israel?
Concerned re the new vaccine strategies? Worried that delaying the second dose is a bad idea or that it might make the virus resistant? Confused re mix and match vaccines? I’ve compiled this short explainer, pls read and share. TL/DR; on balance, nothing to be concerned about 1/2
So proud of the XR Scientists community out on the streets right now with the XR Lawyers community. If you’ve not heard about the Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill, please read this ASAP and please lend your support.
#CEEBill
@ScientistsX
@XRlawyers
I’m proud to say I’ve signed this open letter pledging not to work with the
@sciencemuseum
again until it ends its dangerous and hypocritical partnership with fossil fuel companies. It has lost all integrity by endorsing organisations whose plans are taking us towards disaster.
BREAKING: leading scientists sign open letter pledging 'not to work' with
@sciencemuseum
until it ends fossil fuel partnerships. The letter is signed by many who've worked with the museum in the past, as speakers, advisors, contributors & members of staff
1/4 Ok everyone. If you’re still not clear on the urgency, or if you’re not now doing EVERYTHING you possibly can to raise awareness and to force governments to listen and take action, read this article and this thread. Please.
@ScientistsX
@ExtinctionR
NEW EXPLAINER ATTACHED: why you should ignore people or articles saying there’s insufficient evidence of the link between Covid and Vitamin D and start taking 4000 IU (100 micrograms) / day NOW*. That’s 10x the RDA. Nothing to lose (except a few pennies) and everything to gain.
City banks are investing billions of £ in fossil fuel companies. And MORE every year. We are hurtling towards catastrophe and no one is listening.
@ScientistsX
demand that our banks stop funding the climate and ecological crisis. Read our declaration here
Exciting news!! Our
@ScientistsX
Emergency on Planet Earth document is now live on the
@XRebellionUK
website! Find out The Truth about what’s going on on our planet, why, and what we can do about it. Please spread the word. And then, please, ACT NOW.
Scientists for Extinction Rebellion took action in the City of London today. It is our last resort. We’re supported by over 700 scientists across the globe. The government have not listened to our warnings. We have a moral duty to DO something.
@ScientistsX
@ExtinctionR
@XRLondon
For those demanding photographic evidence, here’s a photo of ambulances queuing outside Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham this evening. There’s a sick patient inside every one of them. They can’t even enter the building. Hospitals are at breaking point. (H/T
@drpunith
)
I could not be more proud of all the courageous scientists, doctors & healthcare professionals who took part in this action. Thank you
@ThierryAaron
@CharlieJGardner
&
@ScientistsX
for doing this. Pls read their words, the situation could not be more dire.
High court judges have just ruled that the police ban on Extinction Rebellion protests in London last month was unlawful. We have a right to peaceful protests. We are trying to save our country from societal collapse - and preserve your children’s future.
Epic news!! “Fairytale of New York” widow urges us all to buy “We Tried” by
@louisehmusic
for 79p BY MIDNIGHT THURS so we get a Climate Song as Christmas No1! Pls join me & my musician husband
@kimweidotcom
in supporting the campaign & RT to ask all your followers to BUY IT! 🧵
Please 🙏 buy this single if you love ❤️
@ShaneMacGowan
because Shane really really loved nature and the trees and the animals and everything about the natural world. He would appreciate anyone who cares about the environment ❤️
“If your smoke alarm goes off in the night you don’t get annoyed and ask it to stop.” Here’s another
@BBCBreakfast
interview I did - on the science behind why we’re protesting & how the government is letting us down.
#ClimateCrisis
@ScientistsX
@XRLondon
@theproudband
It’s quite simple - they’ve been told not to. It’s a breech of internal policy to leak conditions without communication department approval. There are careful trajectories for whistle blowers.
Around 20 fewer flights a year (most were for work), stopped eating beef / lamb and drinking milk, buying no new clothes or technology (have had the same phone and computer for over 5 years) and I don’t have a car. Oh and I give talks and tweet to raise awareness. Anyone else?
@DrEmilyGrossman
Still waiting to hear what you are cutting out of your massively fossil-fueled life (apart from one or two less flights per year which will have no noticeable impact on anything). Come on, walk the walk instead of just the usual talking the talk. That's leadership.
Want to know the truth about what’s going on on our planet, why, and what we can do about it? Take a look at our year-in-the-making easy-to-read guide to the climate and ecological emergency, thoroughly fact-checked and reviewed by a team of top experts. WE NEED TO ACT NOW!
“Expect more disease outbreaks ‘if we continue to deny, delude and delay on climate change’”. Please listen to this short discussion on
@Channel4News
last night with
@CFigueres
on the links between disease (Coronavirus) and climate breakdown.
@ExtinctionR
This. “The worse it gets the more people think it can’t be that bad. They think it would be on the front pages if it was, but don’t realise that most journalists don’t understand either.”
NHS workers have been told not to speak out. It’s a breech of internal policy to leak conditions without communication department approval. There are careful trajectories for whistle blowers.
Extinction Rebellion “pausing” ceremony: 6.00pm tomorrow at speakers corner by Marble Arch - acknowledging our massive achievement & recognising that we are pausing for a while to reflect, plan & regenerate. Please come along and let others know.
#EmilyXR
#ExtinctionRebellion
“If all adults take 4,000 IU/d
#vitaminD
over winter we *will* end the pandemic.” Even if you STILL don’t believe
@gruffdavies
- and all the other experts saying the same - do it anyway. You’ve nothing to lose except a few pennies, and EVERYTHING to gain.
Who are you going to believe? 99% of climate scientists who say we are in a crisis situation and must act now, or the exec editor of
@TheSun
who “promises” we’ll all be ok? 🤦🏻♀️ Listen to my interview with
@danwootton
on
@talkRADIO
and decide for yourself.
Please read the truth here, rigorously fact-checked and verified and endorsed by a range of leading experts, and then please share it with everyone you know. We have to stop this misinformation madness
@ScientistsX
@RHarrabin
@BBCRadio4
It’s also important to understand that stats on hospital bed occupancy are misleading. Lower occupancy than usual is to be expected, as routine operations, treatments and appointments are being cancelled and all available staff are being moved to Covid wards. ICUs are overflowing
The climate emergency is here. It’s as plain as day. Wake up everyone. And it’s going to get a lot worse. Thank you
@ThierryAaron
for your work. If only this message was on every mainstream media outlet.
#Heatwave2022
I was interviewed by
@TRTWorldNow
about the
#Heatwave2022
health alert 🌡️⚕️🚨
My message was simple: This is the
#ClimateEmergency
But this it is just the start, it will keep getting MUCH WORSE until we 🛑STOP🛑 burning fossil fuels 🛢️ ‼️
Part 1:
“It’s time to participate in non-violent political movements wherever possible.”
@CFigueres
, who led the negotiations for the Paris Agreement, calls for civil disobedience to force institutions to respond to the climate crisis Join
“When I first learned of the severity of the Planetary Crisis, I had nightmares. Because I was alone. Alone, we will always have nightmares. But together, we can have a dream - a dream of an alternative future for our planet.”
Pls watch & share my talk:
I’ve already said no to offers for several talks this year that would involve flights, and planned trains and ferries for others I would have flown to in the past (eg Guernsey, Barcelona) - as well as booking a train to visit my sister who works in the Alps. What are YOUR plans?
Oh my gosh! My baby has arrived!Huge thanks to everyone who has been involved in this epic process. Everyone is welcome to celebrate with me on Sept 18th. Please RSVP to the address on the invite if you’d like to come along
#BrainFizzingFacts
#BloomsburyChildrensBooks
#WeDidIt
❤️
ITS PUBLICATION DAY TOMORROW! My new book
#WorldWhizzing
Facts
@KidsBloomsbury
@abowsh
is available in all good bookstores. Here’s a thread🧵with what a bunch of awesome people have said about it. I’ll be updating it throughout the week. Order yours now!
I’m super excited to announce that from nearly 1000 nominated scientists we have chosen the father of computer science and WWII codebreaker Alan Turing to be the face of the new polymer £50 note. Hurray! 🎉👨🔬 🏳️🌈
@bankofengland
#Turing50
#ThinkScience
#LGBTQ
#Diversity
“When I first learned of the severity of the Planetary Crisis, I had nightmares. Because I was alone. Alone, we will always have nightmares. But together, we can have a dream - a dream of an alternative future for our planet.”
#COP26
#ClimateAction
🌍🌳
Is anyone else completely horrified that neither of our country’s two main candidates in the BBC Prime Ministerial debate so much as MENTIONED the climate and ecological emergency in their opening gambit? It’s only the biggest threat that humanity has ever faced. WTAF?
#BBCDebate
Nine of the world’s top fossil fuel investors have global or national headquarters in the City of London. Scientists for Extinction Rebellion are protesting to demand they stop using YOUR money to fund the climate crisis.
@ScientistsX
@XRLondon
@ExtinctionR
@RupertRead
Powerful interview with NASA climate scientist Peter Kalmus: “We [scientists] have to actually act like this is a fucking emergency, so that the public gets it and starts to push the policy forward". Yes!! This is exactly what
@ScientistsX
is all about 💪
Publication day!!! If you’re passing a bookshop, your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to pop in & see if they have my baby in stock. If they do, I would love it if you could take a photo & post it here so I can get excited! I’ll be doing the same, but w/ brain fizz🥂
*NEWS* An ecologist and courageous member of our XR Scientists
@ScientistsX
community was arrested this morning for speaking on the street about the impacts of animal farming on climate change and the increased risk of pandemics
@XRebellionUK
. Please watch and share.
"Since becoming present to [the climate] reality, I’ve barely had a good night’s sleep. There are moments when I can distract myself, but a base level of horror & terror is always there." Really pleased to have been quoted in this great piece on eco-anxiety in
#WomensHealthMag
🌳
Super proud of my dad for receiving the
@TheEndoSociety
Outstanding Mentor Award. He showed me that science is fun, he never tired of answering all my questions and he explained everything really simply. But, most importantly, he taught me how to be kind. ❤️❤️❤️
Meet
@TheEndoSociety
2020 Laureate Ashley Grossman, MD, FRCP, who received the Outstanding Mentor Award, and "enthusiastically transferred his love of academic and clinical endocrinology to his younger colleagues."
“The world will face irreversible heating unless firms shift their priorities soon. The risks associated w/ a 4C world include a 9m rise in sea level - affecting up to 760 million people - searing heatwaves and droughts, and serious food supply problems.”
IMPORTANT: Do not be taken in by reports / videos of empty hospital beds claiming the NHS crisis is being exaggerated. Of course there are empty wards! Covid wards and ICUs are OVERFLOWING so all available staff and resources from OTHER wards have been diverted there. 1/4
Super excited to be a member of the Advisory Committee for choosing the face of the new polymer £50 note.
#ThinkScience
and nominate your favourite scientist today:
@bankofengland
@sciencemuseum
Pls bookmark this document and use it whenever you want to find out the truth about what’s going on on our planet and why. Use it to convince friends and family that this really is an emergency requiring urgent action, and to rebut misinformation spread by skeptics and deniers.
Emergency on Planet Earth - This document, written by
@DrEmilyGrossman
and
@ScientistsX
is brilliant. Clearly written, full of essential information, useful graphs and quotes.
Another: “Patients w/ Covid-19 have been receiving care in emergency vehicles parked up outside Queen's Hospital in Romford, north east London, before being moved into the building. Rising numbers are putting health services under "significant pressure".”
My interview on Sky News this evening discussing why it is so significant that we honour Alan Turing on the £50 note - a man who was not only an outstanding scientist, but who was also treated horrifically on account of his sexuality.
#Turing50
#LGBTQ
#ThinkScience
@bankofengland
@BBCr4today
You just called the
#climateemergency
‘so-called’. Why? How? 98% of the world’s scientists have confirmed we are in a life-threatening crisis now which needs to be dealt with urgently. Why is it ‘so-called’.????
#BBCtellthetruth
My dad’s letter in The Times today about the
#BlackLivesMatter
demo he attended in London, expressing his disappointment that Boris focused on the “thuggery”, ignored the feelings behind the demonstration, and offered no understanding of the concerns expressed by POCs. 👏👏👏✊🏾
ESSENTIAL READING: Finally, a mainstream article clearly laying out the travesty of government dragging its feet and not listening to experts re recommending Vitamin D to prevent deaths from Covid. Please take 4000 IU / day* and tell everyone you know.
GREAT NEWS! New data confirm there’s NO REDUCTION IN PROTECTION from delaying the second dose of the Oxford-AZ vaccine for 90 days. Woo hoo! AND there’s a whopping 67% REDUCTION IN TRANSMISSION of the virus by those vaccinated too!!! Go team science!!
Whilst individual action is not enough to avert catastrophic damage to our planet, we all still need to do what we can - if only to send a signal to governments that we are willing to make changes to our lives. In this podcast we discuss the most effective changes YOU can make.
What does a 2.3 tonne lifestyle look like? We crunch the numbers with
@DrEmilyGrossman
in our latest podcast and find out how we can lower our carbon footprints.
Listen to the science! Please come and join
@ScientistsX
in London on Friday to hear the real science of the climate and ecological emergency, from the real scientists. We’ll be marching with the samba band from 12pm w/ speeches at Trafalgar Square at 3pm.
Waaaahhh! We won!!!
@mmaggieli
@HachetteKids
@uksla
Information Book Awards 2022
📚🦠🎉
(Apparently I am the first winner who has ever jumped up and down squealing 😆)
Really important that we realise that we CAN make a difference. We now need urgent radical action to get these curves down further. Carbon zero 2050 still only gives us a ~50% chance of staying below 1.5C. We need to get there much sooner. We have the WAY, do we have the WILL?
#climatechange
science has made a huge difference. No longer are we predicting 5 deg warming as policies have slowed carbon emissions.
Next challenge is to have policies to get to net zero by 2050. Given our past geopolitical success we could do it!
And another: “Ambulances with Covid patients seen queuing outside London hospitals as 'heartbreaking' pressure on NHS rises.” Photo and social media footage show ambulances queuing outside the Royal London Hospital with patients being treated inside them.
Dr Mike Henley
@trentconsultant
: “I’ve been a hospital doctor for 30 years.This is an order of magnitude worse than other yrs. NHS is close to not being able to provide ICU care because there are too many sick.Hospitals struggling to provide enough basics like oxygen. It’s real.”
No more words. The time has come for action. Please back our call for the the Climate and Ecological Crisis to be enshrined in law.
#CEEBill
Please share.
@ScientistsX
The time has come for action, not more words. And this Bill is what real action on
#climateemergency
looks like. Join us, and tweet or email your MP to back the CEE Bill!
Still don’t believe NHS London is at breaking point? On 26th Dec, London Ambulance Service received as many emergency calls as it did at the height of the first wave of Covid-19. Nearly 8,000 calls were received, a 40% increase on a typical "busy" day.