An Iowa meteorologist started talking about climate change on newscasts. Then came the harassment

https://apnews.com/article/meteorologist-harassment-threats-climate-change-iowa-bf91adbd26ca5e97507406947b47d684

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MicroWave@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 3y (2 replies)
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matthewc@lemmy.self-host.site · 13 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Yet the same people still expect meteorologists to use the same science to predict the weather for them.

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 3y

I don't think they are even aware that meteorologists predict the weather using science.

Curious_Canid@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 3y

This kind of behavior needs to be clearly established as illegal and those laws need to be acted on. We've reached a point where all kinds of ordinary people are having their lives threatened over simply describing the world as it is. That has to stop.