MIT climate scientist receives frenzy of hate mail, veiled threats against family

Where can I see this "controversial" video that "earned" Mr. Emanual all of those vicious e-mails?

The internet is like a box of chocolates you never know what you're gonna get. . (and some of them chocolates are chock full of nuts).

yepper -
[ Republican candidates "have either been misled, in which case it's not great to be part of the political system where candidates for the president of the United States could be so misled on such an important issue, or they were dishonest ] ;

but start convince enough people of that and the power elite might just have you killed.

thats the life for us these days... we get threats and abuse for speaking... at least a few of us have the balls to do it anyway!

It's pretty sad when someone and their family is subjected to barbaric behavior.

sad to see ignorance winning the arguement with threats,the assault on reason continues..

There will be maniacs yelling against climate change science with religious zeal till the rising waters rise over their heads and they are silenced by drowning in their own stupidity.

some people do not get the idea of free speech , or science , for that matter .

The GOP stupid train started with bush stealing the election,after that with Fox and Limpballs,the stupid just gets stronger.

Imagine if Al Gore was allowed to rightfully have been our President,how history,and America would have been different.No Iraq,Afghan wars,the US on a path to clean renewable energy,no economic crash.

Instead America took a ride on the stupid train funded by the oligarchy.It works so well for them,so badly for the rest of the world and it's creatures.

They will do ANYTHING to protect their Profits. To them Money is FAR more important than society.

The best terrorism oil money can buy.

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/climate-of-fear-scientis...

Bullying scum.

"Australia's leading climate change scientists are being targeted by a vicious, unrelenting email campaign that has resulted in police investigations of death threats.The Australian National University has confirmed it moved several high-profile climate scientists, economists and policy researchers into more secure buildings, following explicit threats to their personal safety.

Scientists at universities in NSW and Queensland have told of being moved to high security buildings, where their names do not appear on staff directory lists or on their office door.

''If you want to find me, it's impossible unless you make an appointment, sign in with some form of photo identification, and are personally escorted to my door,'' one scientist said.

''That's directly as a result of threats made against me.''

More than 30 researchers across Australia ranging from ecologists and environmental policy experts to meteorologists and atmospheric physicists told The Canberra Times they are receiving a stream of abusive emails threatening violence, sexual assault, public smear campaigns and attacks on family members.

Among the scientists being targeted is Australian National University climate institute director Professor Will Steffen.

Others include University of NSW climate change research co-director Professor Andy Pitman and University of Melbourne meteorology professor and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change lead author Professor David Karoly.

Many scientists spoke on condition of anonymity, saying they feared the email attacks would escalate if they were identified.

Several scientists have installed upgraded home security systems and switched to unlisted phone numbers after receiving threats that their homes and cars would be damaged.

One scientist said he was advised by police to install a ''panic button'' security alarm in his university office after receiving death threats. Others have removed all contact numbers from their work websites, and deleted social media sites after these were defaced with abusive comments and obscene photographs. One researcher told of receiving threats of sexual assault and violence against her children after her photograph appeared in a newspaper article promoting a community tree-planting day as a local action to mitigate climate change."

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Threatened for wanting to plant trees!
These people are mental.

Outrageous. They're getting desperate. The denial scam is up. REAL science will always win out and their attempt to discredit/threaten scientists and use the Internet to dog and intimdate people to distract from this crisis is becoming known. I suspect there is more of this going on than we even know.

Courtesy of the Koch Brother denial dollars and all their big oil shills.