Short thread on what it was like to be a climate scientist a decade ago for some, courtesy of excerpts from "The Hockey Climate Wars" (amazon.com/Hockey-Stick-C…)
1. Being targeted for assault by national white supremacist groups for being part of a purported Jewish climate cabal.
1. Being targeted for assault by national white supremacist groups for being part of a purported Jewish climate cabal.
2. Actionable death threats against you and your family. FBI testing your office for anthrax after receipt of a powder-containing envelope.
3. Investigations by Congressional Republican Committee Chairs aimed at intimidating you and discrediting you and your research.
4. Investigations by Republican Attorney Generals aimed at intimidating you and discrediting you and your research.
5. An entire global pseudoscandal created and promoted by the world's most powerful industry intended to discredit you and your fellow climate scientists and destroy your life forever.
6. Leading fossil fuel industry-funded Senate Republicans demanding criminal investigations into your science.
7. Fossil fuel industry front groups organizing massive demonstrations against you at your own University to put pressure on your university to take sanctions against you based on false allegations of misconduct.
8. Youtube video (with murky origins and promoted by fossil fuel industry front groups) mocking you as a cartoon character goes viral and appears on CBS Evening News.
9. Two major scientific reports evaluating the validity of your scientific work back through your post-doc days. A legitimate one by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and a hatchet job manufactured by Congressional Republicans intended to discredit you and your research.
10. Republican U.S. Senators try to freeze your government research grants. State Republicans threaten to withhold the entire budget for your University if it doesn't take disciplinary actions against you over politically motivated, trumped-up allegations of misconduct.
11. I really only barely scratched the surface. You can read the rest in "The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars"
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