Summits and alarming reports follow one another, without producing political results. Faced with the inaction of the political class, scientists are proposing a research strike. Which is far from consensus in the community.
Bad news is piling up for the planet, as evidenced by the report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), published on February 28, and its call for urgent action. But for scientists like Professor Bruce C. Glavovic, who contributed to it, it is frustrating to accumulate demonstrations without succeeding in encouraging governments to tackle the problem. “We had 26 meetings of the Conference of the Parties, for heaven’s sake”, does he get carried away with the New York Times regarding the climate summits organized by the UN, which each time produce their share of reports and graphs.
Seriously, what difference does it make ?”
At the start of 2020, the daily reports, this professor from Massey University (New Zealand) met with two other colleagues. They wondered why it was so difficult to make a difference in support of scientific research. “They concluded that suspending such research and reporting on behalf of the IPCC was the scientists’ best hope.
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