Warmist Ross Garnaut: Whenever a scientist or an economist opened his or her mouth, they'd be bombarded by "tens of thousands" of emails

Bruised but unbowed: Lunch with Ross Garnaut - National News - National - General - Wyndham Weekly

He recalls the pressure he and his staff came under during the climate change review. Whenever a scientist or an economist opened his or her mouth, they'd be bombarded by "tens of thousands" of emails. Other stakeholders, including MPs and Garnaut himself, were copied in.

"Some were abusive, some were life-threatening, of a crudity that's hard to imagine," he says. "I know lots of people involved in that debate who decided personally it wasn't worthwhile.

''So the threats were successful: they knocked some people out of the public policy debate."

Security precautions were required for his office and staff although Garnaut won't go into details. The deterioration in Australian political culture threatens to take a heavy toll.