Twenty-five scientists have pasted pages of scientific papers to the windows of the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, and glued their hands to the glass to highlight the climate science they said the government was ignoring.
The scientists, affiliated with Scientists for Extinction Rebellion, arrived at the department’s building at 1 Victoria Street, SW1, just after 11am. Doctors and health professionals staged a decoy action to give them space to get into position.
At least 10 scientists were arrested after spray-painting extinction symbols in the glass facade of the BEIS building. Among them was Professor Colin Davis, chair in cognitive psychology at Bristol University.
