Climatologist Tom Wigley Now Receiving Death Threats - FBI, UK Police Investigating

[hatrack]

An Australian born scientist at the centre of the East Anglia University email affair says he has received a number of death threats.

Dr Tom Wigley, a former director of the university's Climatic Research Unit, has had several of his emails hacked and used by climate change sceptics to suggest that he and his colleagues have been distorting data about the evidence of global warming. He is unable to reveal the details of the threats, as they are now being investigated by the FBI and UK police.

Dr Wigley told Eleanor Hall on The World Today that, while the threats are genuinely frightening, he is not surprised. "This sort of thing has been going on at a much lower level for almost 20 years and there have been other outbursts of this sort of behaviour - criticism and abusive emails and things like that in the past," he said. "So this is a worse manifestation but it's happened before so it's not that surprising."

He rejects suggestions that scientists have been exaggerating about the effects of climate change and says the emails were simply scientific questioning. "We don't base policy by what is said in personal emails from people who are just developing some sort of scientific story," he said.

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/12/09/2766508.htm?section=justin

[Viking12]

1. Nice bunch of people those climate deniers.

And we've got far too many of the ignorant douchebags right here at DU.

[kristopher]

2. Led by the likes of Palin, Beck and Limpballs, what do you expect?

You wrote, "And we've got far too many of the ignorant douchebags right here at DU".

I've never seen a statement on DU I agree with more.

[depakid]

3. "I've never seen a statement on DU I agree with more."

:thumbsup:

[pscot]

4. One of them got sent out for pizza yesterday

and he won't be coming back. There was general merriment.

[Nihil]

5. I've noticed a new silver lining though ...

... DU appears to be benefitting from the denier funds these days
as little newbies are appearing with donor stars so that they can
post their crap as far afield as possible before they get canned.

(Mind you, that tends to be offset by the attitudes of certain LBN mods ...)

[Viking12]

6. Link?

I am curious as to which one.

[pscot]

7. Thinking someone might ask

I bookmarked the thread. Enjoy.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=7173690