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Scientist Rebellion: researchers join protesters at COP26

Scientists are among hundreds of demonstrators at the COP26 climate conference — and want more to join them.
  1. Tosin Thompson
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It is about 1 p.m. on 11 November when I arrive at the rendezvous point: South Portland Street Suspension Bridge, a footbridge above the River Clyde in Glasgow, UK. On a dinghy floating across the river, a distant figure in a lab coat holds up a banner that reads: “Tell the truth or we will lose everything”. It is Tim Hewlett, an astrophysicist and co-founder of activist group Scientist Rebellion. I am told that he will continue to float across the river until he docks by the Scottish Event Campus, where the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) is taking place, or until he’s arrested — whichever comes first.

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Nature 599, 357 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03430-5

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