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The Climate Question: Why are climate scientists receiving abuse?

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12/11/2023 GMT

Why are climate scientists receiving abuse?

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Meet the climate scientists who are receiving abuse for their research.

The climate science community say they are facing a growing barrage of abuse by people who do not believe what they’re saying.

As the world faces up to the increasingly apparent effects of climate change, access to accurate information that helps us to understand what’s going on, why, and what we can do about it, is vital. 
 
But in its efforts to do this, the science community is facing a growing amount of abuse from people who do not believe what they’re saying. Anger at the science is leading to threats against the scientists in some cases. 
 
In this episode, presenter Jordan Dunbar is joined by BBC Verify’s Merlyn Thomas to find out more and are joined by the following guests: 
 
Nihan Kalle, BBC Monitoring, based in Istanbul 
Helene Muri, research professor in climate change at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. 
Lincoln Alves, climate scientist at the National Institute for Space Research in Brazil. 
Hannah Ritchie, deputy editor at Our World in Data and a researcher at the University of Oxford, UK. 
 
Email us: theclimatequestion@bbc.com 
 
Producer: Ben Cooper 
Researcher: Octavia Woodward 
Series producer: Alex Lewis 
Editor: China Collins 
Sound engineers: Tom Brignell and James Beard

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