Some demonstrators who came out for theMarch for Science protests faced rain and sloppy weather. Others faced elements much more severe.A team of German researchers showed their support for the pro-science protests held across the U.S. by enduring below freezing temperatures outside of their research lab in Antarctica on Saturday.The researchers, who are with the Alfred Wegener Institute, are spending the upcoming Antarctic winter at the institutes Neumayer III research station. They took the photo below as a show of solidarity with protestors around the world and included a sign with a quote by Marie Curie, the Pulitzer Prize-winning chemist who discovered the elements radium and polonium.Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more so that we may fear less.Overwinterer at the Neumayer Station also support the #MarchForScience ' our message of support from Antarctica! @ScienceMarchDC pic.twitter.com/7qObD39aY4 AWI Medien (@AWI_de) April 22, 2017 AWI serves as a year-round lab where researchers observe climate changes and study meteorology and atmospheric chemistry.Scientists with the AWI also joined the demonstration from several other locations, including their research vessel Polarstern at Bremerhaven, Germany, from their largerresearch vessel Heincke and from theirFrench-German research base in the Arctic.Wir untersttzen den internationalen #MarchForScience Viele Gre vom #openship Polarstern an alle Mrsche weltweit pic.twitter.com/EOsqATRTlO AWI Medien (@AWI_de) April 22, 2017 Nicht nur an der Polarstern zeigen wir heute Flagge ' auch die Heincke setzt ein Zeichen #marchforscience @ScienceMarchGER pic.twitter.com/Gvs4q7fmDY AWI Medien (@AWI_de) April 22, 2017 Heute Abend gehen auch im arktischen Wissenschaftsdorf Ny-lesund Wissenschaftler demonstrieren #MarchForScience @ScienceMarchGER pic.twitter.com/Yr0wVzqoXz AWI Medien (@AWI_de) April 22, 2017 Karin Lochte, the director of the institute and a climate change specialist, spoke out against manipulative anti-science populist movements in a statement announcing their support for the March for Science protests.In numerous countries around the globe, populist movements are currently manipulating the facts to support their own views and goals, Lochte said. Undesirable research is being hampered and good science is being called into question ' a trend that could seriously jeopardize important achievements like the Paris Agreement.Das war der #marchforscience in Ny-lesund #ArktisFotos: Rodolphe Merceron/AWIPEV pic.twitter.com/5frqKER212 AWI Medien (@AWI_de) April 22, 2017 Lochte said that when scientific findings are disputed at higher influential political levels, it may lead to the public losing faith in science altogether.AWI research, which has shown that climate change is impacting the Arctic and Antarctic, is especially in danger.These are the facts that we have to take seriously, Lochte said. It is vital that the scientific community remains a dependable, trustworthy and independent source of information to guide many of societys most important decisions.Thats something we all have to fight for, she added. As researchers and as citizens. -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.
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