Aussie Climate Scientists Receiving Death Threats

An anonymous reader writes "With the Australian parliament beginning the debate on setting a carbon price, climate scientists are reporting an increase in threatening phone calls and even death threats. The threats are serious enough that several universities have increased security for their ecology and meteorology researchers. The Australian government is seeking to introduce a carbon tax by July 2012."

Comments

Just goes to show the lunacy of the conservatives

[mozumder]

Since people can't rationalize their hatred of science (since science is logic and reason), they get all emotional and cry and whine and make death threats.

Always do the opposite of a conservative, especially the "freedom-loving" libertarian types.

Whichever

[Mashiki]

Are these the same guys who've been refusing SOI/FOIA requests because they claim that their work which is publically funded is 'proprietary'? Or are these the same ones from aussieland that made up the shit including forging the emails that they were being harassed.

Then again I can't really feel too much sympathy. People will only take a decade or two(maybe three) of doom and gloom based on fudged numbers, and corrupted policies. Especially when they realize that what you're proposing will effectively bankrupt the entire country and turn it into a 3rd world dirt farming nation.

Typical lying liberals

[Anonymous Coward]

Two 'death threats' were received, one 5 years ago and the other at a staff wine and cheese evening 12 months ago. None of the emails released contained anything remotely like a death threat, and no police involvement has been requested by the putative 'offended' parties. This is nothing more than a beatup by liars trying to get a better budget to improve their office quarters.
And you fell for it because you too are a liberal bigot who loves having their prejudices and bigotry stroked without any interest in the facts,

Are denialists really that dumb?

[Rogerborg]

Not realising that making a threat to mount a "public smear campaign" not only negates your ability to do so, it in fact destroys your own position?

This campaign of abuse is so incompetent that it's utterly self defeating; any attempt to engage in nuanced debate can now be curtailed simply by labelling the doubter as "one of those denialist terrorists", and refusing to engage with them.

Indeed, if I were a ecomental activist, I'd mount exactly this sort of comedically clumsy campaign in the name of denialists. It works especially well since hug-a-dolphin liberals do actually believe that denialists (i.e. anyone who disagrees with them) are exactly "that dumb".

Bravo, ecomentals. Well played, sirs, madams and non-gender-specificists.

Of course, you're not really saving the earth, you're just inadvertently shilling for the very corporations who are selling snake oil to solve an intractable problem (too many humans), but don't let that stop you, you plucky mentals.