Weight of the world revisited: the climate scientists who copped it
b'Science Weekly revisits episode two of this 2023 mini-series from Full Story. In part two of Weight of the world, three Australian climate scientists reveal the professional and personal toll of their predictions. Lesley Hughes tells us about the axing of Australia\\u2019s Climate Commission, a group tasked with educating the public about climate science and the need to cut carbon emissions; Graeme Pearman talks of the pushback from government and industry; and Ove Hoegh-Guldberg speaks of the personal attacks and death threats that followed his warnings. All three express their disbelief that meaningful action didn\\u2019t follow the science, with Pearman saying he was \\u2018naive\\u2019 to think it would. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod'