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Climate scientists are turning to protest in desperation

Climate scientists are turning to protest in desperation

After decades of being ignored, scientists are resorting to more radical action to communicate the dire urgency of the climate crisis.
Don’t look away: Dr. Peter Kalmus on the United Nations’ latest climate report

Don’t look away: Dr. Peter Kalmus on the United Nations’ latest climate report

Kalmus, a climate scientist and activist, explains why we need to act now, and fast, to forestall calamity.
Is civil disobedience the only way to solve climate change?

Is civil disobedience the only way to solve climate change?

NASA climate scientist Peter Kalmus was arrested for chaining himself to a Chase Bank in Los Angeles. He thinks more people need to engage in climate disobedience, too.
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Peter Kalmus: Why is Biden boasting about drilling for oil? Our planet demands we stop now

President Biden says he “listens to scientists”. But if he listened to climate scientists, he would understand that he can either be for stopping climate breakdown or for boosting oil and gas production, but not both.

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Peter Kalmus: I’m a climate scientist. Don’t Look Up captures the madness I see every day

A film about a comet hurtling towards Earth and no one is doing anything about it? Sounds exactly like the climate crisis.

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Jennifer Francis , Michael Mann , Holly Jean Buck and Peter Kalmus: How many years until we must act on climate?

We have zero years before climate and ecological breakdown, because it's already here. We have zero years left to procrastinate.

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Why this climate scientist says 'no' to flying

Scientists do a lot of flying to meetings and conferences. For Peter Kalmus, flying 50,000 miles a year for his work was a huge chuck of his carbon footprint.
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