Climate change deniers accused of McCarthyism
World News • May 2010 • Views: 365
Climate change experts face a “McCarthy-like” persecution by politically-motivated opponents, some of the world’s leading scientists have claimed.
In a letter published in the journal Science, more than 250 members of the US National Academy of Sciences, including 11 Nobel Prize laureates, condemned the increase in “political assaults” on scientists who argue greenhouse gas emissions are warming the planet.