Climate Scientists Take to the Streets to Protest Trump David Kirby - TakePart
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Climate Scientist Michael Mann: Trump's Policies Are 'Game Over' for Our Climate (TheRealNews)

On Sunday, Donald Trump told Fox News that “nobody really knows whether climate change is real.” But scientists who staged a rally in San Francisco on Tuesday had a stinging rebuke for the president-elect: It’s real, it’s here, and we are bracing for an epic battle against your policies and appointments.

“The election result was not the one that many of us would like to see, but the battle goes on and must go on,” Michael Mann, director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State University, said at the rally.

Mann spoke outside the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, where 26,000 scientists are gathering in the first major convening of climate scientists since the presidential election. He was joined by other climate researchers and activists representing Native Americans and people living in “frontline communities” near polluting refineries, power plants, pipelines, and other fossil fuel infrastructure.



The rally, called “Stand Up for Science,” was organized by ClimateTruth.Org and The Natural History Museum, a self-described “mobile and pop-up museum that champions bold climate action.”

“It’s critical that scientists step forward and make our voices heard, not just for the sake of scientific research but for the sake of the entire planet,” Mann said. “We have our work before us…. This is our home. It’s time to start acting like it.”

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