Why are climate scientists receiving abuse?

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