Grantham says scientists should be more vocal

Jeremy Grantham, who, through the Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment, funds the Grantham Reasearch Institute on Climate Change (of which there is one in Imperial) has written for Nature saying that scientists should “Be persuasive. Be brave. Be arrested (if necessary)”. He wanted scientists to speak out forcefully over issues that concern global warming. He argued that there was a resource crisis coming and that more scientists need to speak out about climate change. In the opinion piece for Nature he said: “It is crucial that scientists sound a more realistic, more desperate, note on global warning”. In the article he also discusses economic issues such as food prices. He ended with: “This is not only the crisis of your lives – it is also the crisis of our species’ existence. I implore you to be brave.”