If you'd spent years and years of your professional career warning everybody that the world was on the precipice of total catastrophe, and people completely stopped listening to you because the world, in fact, had not ended—well, you'd probably be a bit fed up as well!

"We've had 26 Conference of the Parties meetings, for heaven's sake," [environmental scientist Bruce Glavovic] said, referring to the United Nations global warming summits. More scientific reports, another set of charts. "I mean, seriously, what difference is that going to make?"

It was this frustration that led Dr. Glavovic, 61, a professor at Massey University in New Zealand, and two colleagues to send a jolt recently through the normally cautious, rarefied world of environmental research. In an academic journal, they called on climate scientists to stage a mass walkout, to stop their research until nations take action on global warming.

Oh, my goodness. We only have one response to that:

Now, as the New York Times notes, "many researchers balked" at the idea. That's understandable. It's a radical proposal, counterintuitive, it doesn't really make any sense, all it's guaranteed to do is make climate scientists even less relevant than they already are.

But why let that stop you?! We need to urge climate scientists the world over: Go on strike and make your voices heard by even fewer people than are currently listening!

This could be a turning point for the climate debate, in the best way possible! Strike! Strike!

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