Clive Hamilton - Bullying, Lies and the Rise of Right-Wing Climate Denial

In recent months, each time they enter the public debate through a newspaper article or radio interview these scientists are immediately subjected to a torrent of aggressive, abusive and, at times, threatening emails. Apart from the volume and viciousness of the emails, the campaign has two features - it is mostly anonymous and it appears to be orchestrated.
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Greens Senator Christine Milne told me that senators' inboxes are bombarded every day by climate deniers and extremists, so that now they are running at least 10 to one against those who call for action on climate change.

She describes it as a "well-organised campaign of strident, offensive and insulting emails that go well beyond the bounds of the normal cut and thrust of politics".
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Few of those on the receiving end of this hatred doubt that the emails are being orchestrated. Scores of abusive emails over a few hours are unlikely to be the product of a large number of individuals spontaneously making the effort to track down an email address and pour forth their rage.

While some individuals act alone, increasingly the attacks are arranged by one or more denialist organisations. It's fair to assume operatives in these organisations constantly monitor the media and, when a story or interview they don't like appears, send messages out to lists of supporters, linking to the comments, providing the scientist's email address and urging them to let him or her know what they think.

One or two of the cyber-bullies have hinted at the level of organisation, with one following an abusive rant with the comment: "Copies of my e-mails to you are also being passed out to a huge network for future reference."
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If a group attempts to have a considered discussion about climate science on an open forum it is very soon deluged with enraged attacks on climate science, sometimes linking for authority to well-known denialist websites. Most scientists long ago stopped attempting to correct the mish-mash of absurd misrepresentations and lies in web "discussions".
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Tomorrow: Who is behind the cyber-bullying campaign?

EU Referendum: Credo in unum deum

Despite this, we still have Pachauri squeaking that the glaciers are continuing to melt rapidly, a claim that owes far more to his need to recover lost credibility over the "Glaciergate" affair than it does any science.

In fact, this reinforces Will's thesis. Pauchauri clings in desperation to his shrinking glaciers, not because of any underlying reality but because they are a central tenet of his faith. He must believe this because, without that certainty, the very foundation of his existence is challenged.

Increasingly though, this desperation of the believers, once threatening, now looks pathetic. Their climate change God, unlike the glaciers they so revere, is melting away

Lamberts Pinker-Tape “Ambush”: PR Stunt « JoNova

The bottom line? The infamous “Pinker tape” turns out to be a reenacted piece of cherry-picking exaggeration, where lines are taken out of context to imply something important, or to frame it as if it was significant.