Tuesday Video: Watch the ad that made Australian climate scientists get death threats

I can’t believe the reaction to this advertisement. It has Cate Blanchett, babies and a lot of positivity. What’s not to love? But it also promotes a carbon tax and that gets people angry. So angry they will threaten climate scientists enough to go in hiding. One scientist said she received “threats of sexual assault and violence against her children” for promoting community tree-planting.

From “Climate of fear” at The Canberra Times : Australia’s leading climate change scientists are being targeted by a vicious, unrelenting email campaign that has resulted in police investigations of death threats.

The Australian National University has confirmed it moved several high-profile climate scientists, economists and policy researchers into more secure buildings, following explicit threats to their personal safety.

Scientists at universities in NSW and Queensland have told of being moved to high security buildings, where their names do not appear on staff directory lists or on their office door.

”If you want to find me, it’s impossible unless you make an appointment, sign in with some form of photo identification, and are personally escorted to my door,” one scientist said.

”That’s directly as a result of threats made against me.”

More than 30 researchers across Australia ranging from ecologists and environmental policy experts to meteorologists and atmospheric physicists told The Canberra Times they are receiving a stream of abusive emails threatening violence, sexual assault, public smear campaigns and attacks on family members.

Full story HERE .