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Scientist Rebellion Creating Rapid Response Action Team

You can help us build a Rapid Response Action Team to speak with expertise about climate-related crisis situations when they arise.

Floods
Wildfires
Heatwaves
Storms

An example:  A powerful hurricane is predicted to produce a huge storm surge somewhere. We have science experts on, say, hydrology, marine biology and epidemiology, all ready to talk to the press.​​​​​​​

Storm surge Dec 2017 Photo by GEORGE DESIPRIS via Pexels
Hurricane, Typhoon, Cyclone - Eye of the Storm Image from Outer Space Photo via Pixabay

We have a plan for easy-to-stage actions, a script for videos, a template press release, and a media contact list ready to go. We’re prepared to get these out in real time, while there’s abundant coverage of the crisis, so we surf the media wave.

Flooded street with cars. Image from Action Network Pexels library.

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This button will take you to a page with more info, and a secure survey to let us know the ways you want to be involved.

Excited by the idea, but don’t have time or energy to engage?

Help make it happen by donating to Scientist Rebellion Turtle Island!

Your donation will fund this project, and support all of our post-US election activities (like demands for action during the lame-duck period), and our plans for the American Geophysical Union conference.

Climate Stripes by Professor Ed Hawkins (University of Reading) CC-BY4.0

Want to know more about the Rapid Response Action Team idea before you click anything?

The idea is to have people with scientific expertise, event specific talking points, pre-planned actions and video clips ready-to-go when a climate disaster or climate-related event occurs. The team would span the continent, to allow a fast response to events anywhere in Turtle Island.

We identified these next steps to create a Rapid Response Action Team:

  • Form an ad hoc working group dedicated to this idea
  • Create a ‘braintrust’ database by surveying SRTI team to catalogue our expertise, locations & roles people want to fill
  • Prepare advance materials like science data on weather event attribution, health impacts, press releases & “lightning actions” ready to be customized and executed

Roles you could take might include:

  • Expert (media or press interview, quotes for press releases)
  • “Lightning action” team member (spokesperson, planning, art builds, media outreach, and/or deploying for actions)
  • Videographer/documentarian
  • Writer (press releases, talking points, scripts)
Climate Stripes by Professor Ed Hawkins (University of Reading) CC-BY4.0

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