Newt Gingrich’s chapter-author-not-to-be gives an interview to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.
BAS: Bloggers have attacked your work and published your e-mail address. Your employer has received public records requests for your correspondence. How serious have these intrusions become?
Hayhoe: They’ve gotten serious enough to be worrying. As a woman and as a mother, it makes you feel unsafe to have people posting your picture and e-mail address on the Internet and encouraging people to send you hate mail, some of which is so bad you have to file police reports, and much of which is decidedly misogynistic in tone. The Freedom of Information Act requests I’ve received do far more than ask for information; they also contain a long list of my supposed “crimes.”
All of these things are designed to intimidate and to silence and to belittle. Most of the attacks are from men, so there’s a gender component to this that can be perceived as threatening. But many of my male colleagues are being attacked in the same way, and many of them have been attacked to an even greater degree than I have, so I feel fortunate that I have been able to walk in their footsteps in terms of learning how to cope with these situations.
Dehumanizing, I guess (?)
The tree hugging life hating watermelons who support a woman’s right to murder her unborn offspring with impunity while saving owls in California, derive their philosophy from Adolf Hitler’s Nazi party and are, putting it kindly, rather misguided.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/01/green_lebensraum_the_nazi_roots_of_sustainable_development.html
And to one of these leftie-luzer critters of indeterminate gender?
Man, you don’t understand: reason is the deadliest threat. A demand for a reason addressed to a woman is misogynistic. To a man, misanthropic.
All of the threats I’ve seen are coming from the warmists. I’ve never heard any threats from skeptics, only a demand for some reason.
Show us the letters and emails. Share the recordings.
BTW, wasn’t it the lefties that pitched AGW by using videos clips that feature a teacher pressing a button and skeptical children exploding – in gory detail?