<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">On 31 January 2019, more than 3400 scientists and academics signed an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_letter" title="Open letter" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;" class="">open letter</a> in support of the school strikes in Belgium.<sup id="cite_ref-scientists4climate-be_49-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_strike_for_climate#cite_note-scientists4climate-be-49" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;" class="">[49]</a></sup> The letter reads "On the basis of the facts supplied by climate science, the campaigners are right. That is why we, as scientists, support them."<sup id="cite_ref-vrtnws-2019_50-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_strike_for_climate#cite_note-vrtnws-2019-50" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;" class="">[50]</a></sup> This was followed by an open letter in support of the school strikes in the Netherlands, signed by 340 scientists,<sup id="cite_ref-dutchnews-2019_51-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_strike_for_climate#cite_note-dutchnews-2019-51" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;" class="">[51]</a></sup> and by <span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;"><span data-sort-value="7003120000000000000♠" class=""></span>1200</span> researchers in Finland signing a letter, on 11 March 2019, supporting the strikes.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_strike_for_climate#cite_note-52" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;" class="">[52]</a></sup></div><div style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">In Germany, Austria, and Switzerland a group of more than <span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;"><span data-sort-value="7004230000000000000♠" class=""></span>23<span style="margin-left: 0.25em;" class="">000</span></span> scientists founded <i class="">Scientists for Future</i> (S4F) in support of the factual correctness of the claims formulated by the movement.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_strike_for_climate#cite_note-53" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;" class="">[53]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_strike_for_climate#cite_note-54" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;" class="">[54]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_strike_for_climate#cite_note-55" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;" class="">[55]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_strike_for_climate#cite_note-56" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;" class="">[56]</a></sup></div><div style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">On 14 March 2019, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_of_Rome" title="Club of Rome" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;" class="">Club of Rome</a> issued an official statement in support of Thunberg and the strikes, urging governments across the world to respond to this call for action and cut global carbon emissions.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_strike_for_climate#cite_note-57" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;" class="">[57]</a></sup></div><div style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">In early April 2019, a letter titled "Concerns of young protesters are justified" was published in <i class=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_(journal)" title="Science (journal)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;" class="">Science</a></i>. The letter declared that the climate strikers' concerns are "justified and supported by the best available science" and was signed by over <span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;"><span data-sort-value="7003300000000000000♠" class=""></span>3000</span> scientists worldwide.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_strike_for_climate#cite_note-58" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;" class="">[58]</a></sup></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_strike_for_climate" class="">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_strike_for_climate</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
<div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">A study led by Susan Solomon found that the CO2 we add to the atmosphere every day remains there for centuries, “</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">so that atmospheric temperatures do not drop significantly for at least 1,000 years</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><<<a href="https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/106/6/1704.full.pdf" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); background-color: transparent;" class="">https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/106/6/1704.full.pdf</span></a>>>.” </span></div></div>
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