Climate Change

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"It's almost impossible to really imagine the end of the world," he says. "What climate change does is it shatters this illusion of control, and that's very, very hard to grasp" He has been an environmentalist all his life but realized in recent years simply doing science isn't enough. 'I just don't know any other way to persuade people of just how deadly serious this is'

Last week’s IPCC report gives the world just 30 months to get greenhouse gas emissions falling. Beyond that, we’ll have missed our chance of limiting global heating to 1.5C and protecting our planet from the most serious impacts of climate change. As the window closes, some scientists feel like writing reports and publishing papers is no longer enough, and researchers around the world are leaving their desks and labs to take action on the streets. Madeleine Finlay meets scientists protesting at Shell HQ in London and speaks to the conservationist Dr Charlie Gardner about civil disobedience – and why he thinks it’s the only option left. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod