Why are climate scientists receiving abuse?
As the world faces up to the increasingly apparent effects of climate change, access to accurate information that helps us to understand what\u2019s going on, why, and what we can do about it, is vital. \n \nBut in its efforts to do this, the science community is facing a growing amount of abuse from people who do not believe what they\u2019re saying. Anger at the science is leading to threats against the scientists in some cases. \n \nIn this episode, presenter Jordan Dunbar is joined by BBC Verify\u2019s Merlyn Thomas to find out more and are joined by the following guests: \n \nNihan Kalle, BBC Monitoring, based in Istanbul \nHelene Muri, research professor in climate change at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. \nLincoln Alves, climate scientist at the National Institute for Space Research in Brazil. \nHannah Ritchie, deputy editor at Our World in Data and a researcher at the University of Oxford, UK. \n \nEmail us: theclimatequestion@bbc.com \n \nProducer: Ben Cooper \nResearcher: Octavia Woodward \nSeries producer: Alex Lewis \nEditor: China Collins \nSound engineers: Tom Brignell and James Beard