Hi
The recent publication of the "World Scientist's Warning of a climate emergency" called me on one issue: far less signatories are associated than for the 2017 "Second notice", and I was wondering why.
I guess the call for signatories was the same, even greater, but likely not decreased ? Do weconsider that >4000 "lacking" signatures are artefactual ? or may we give them a meaning ? From my side, I forwared to many people, including students, as I have done previously. I got those kinds of replies: "... it is useless ..." , "I think it will not change anything", ... "I signed the first one but it is even worst and worst"
Would this be indicative of pessimism, in youngest (or not) scientists ? fatalism ? waiver ?
Comments welcome, maybe more optimistic !
Regards,
Benoit, please can you provide a link to the paper as I have not heard about it.
François Jost,
Thanks for that link. I have found the previous paper "Second Notice" here:, https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/67/12/1026/4605229 I see the Current number of signatories: 11,996 on 13 Dec 2019.
Benoit de Thoisy ,
The previous "Second Notice" has not had much effect on the public, and that may have caused many of the over 15,000 scientists who signed it to feel that there was little point in signing a new petition.
Moreover, it seems to me that the authors have made a fundamental mistake of not identifying their audience. The article is written in the form of a scientific paper, and so only scientists are at ease with it. No layman will read past the first one or two sentences. As a result, the paper is preaching to the converted and of little value.
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