{"id":2793,"date":"2023-02-23T14:19:55","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T19:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/climatecommons\/?p=2793"},"modified":"2023-08-01T10:04:15","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T14:04:15","slug":"climate-commons-stands-in-solidarity-with-dr-rose-abramoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/climatecommons\/2023\/climate-commons-stands-in-solidarity-with-dr-rose-abramoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Commons Stands in Solidarity with Dr. Rose Abramoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In December last year,\u00a0Earth Scientist Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ultracricket\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ultracricket\">Rose Abramoff<\/a>,\u00a0 was fired from the\u00a0Oak Ridge National Laboratory&#8217;s Climate Change Science Institute in the USA for\u00a0unfurling\u00a0a banner with\u00a0Dr. Peter Kalmus (a climate scientist at NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Lab) that read \u201cOut of the lab and into the streets\u201d before a plenary talk in the meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). AGU also commenced a disciplinary action against both active members. Dr. Abramoff outlined these events in a recent op-ed in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/01\/10\/opinion\/scientist-fired-climate-change-activism.html\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/01\/10\/opinion\/scientist-fired-climate-change-activism.html\"><em>New York Times<\/em><\/a> and subsequently discussed it on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/tv\/2023\/01\/18\/rose-abramoff-science-climate-change-amanpour-protest.cnn\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/tv\/2023\/01\/18\/rose-abramoff-science-climate-change-amanpour-protest.cnn\">CNN<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/w3ct36b7\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/w3ct36b7\">BBC<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2023\/1\/19\/rose_abramoff_climate_activism\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2023\/1\/19\/rose_abramoff_climate_activism\">Democracy Now!<\/a> and other news outlets. Both the firing and AGU\u2019s reaction prompted a series of questions and even condemnation of the disproportionality of the actions taken, including a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aguopenletter.com\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.aguopenletter.com\/\">letter to AGU signed by 2,385 Earth scientists, professors and researchers<\/a>; an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/en\/opinion\/article\/2023\/01\/26\/civil-disobedience-climate-scientists-are-citizens-and-humans-too_6013152_23.html\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/en\/opinion\/article\/2023\/01\/26\/civil-disobedience-climate-scientists-are-citizens-and-humans-too_6013152_23.html\">open letter<\/a>; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/markey-agu-scientists-protest\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/markey-agu-scientists-protest\">a Senator who demanded answers from AGU<\/a>, amongst others.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Abramoff is a member of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/scientistrebellion.com\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/scientistrebellion.com\">Scientist Rebellion<\/a>\u00a0and it was in that capacity that she participated in one of our teach-ins,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/climatecommons\/noonsfornow\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/climatecommons\/noonsfornow\/\">Noons for Now<\/a><em>,<\/em>\u00a0here at Carleton University. The <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/climatecommons\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/climatecommons\/\">Carleton Climate Commons<\/a> would like to express its condemnation of both the firing and the disproportional reaction by AGU. We consider both reactions to be direct violations of Dr. Abramoff\u2019s fundamental civil and political rights and liberties, acts which surely aim to produce a chilling effect on future actions that other members of the scientific community may be contemplating. \u00a0It is unacceptable, especially given the current gravity of the climate crisis, that scientists like Dr. Abramoff are facing such blatant repression of their urgent political activities.<\/p>\n<p>We stand in solidarity with Dr. Abramoff.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In December last year,\u00a0Earth Scientist Dr. Rose Abramoff,\u00a0 was fired from the\u00a0Oak Ridge National Laboratory&#8217;s Climate Change Science Institute in the USA for\u00a0unfurling\u00a0a banner with\u00a0Dr. Peter Kalmus (a climate scientist at NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Lab) that read \u201cOut of the lab and into the streets\u201d before a plenary talk in the meeting of the American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[58,116,140,21,154,55],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.2 - 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