{"id":1195,"date":"2014-05-23T14:02:36","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T18:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.granitestatefutures.org\/?p=1195"},"modified":"2014-05-23T14:02:36","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T18:02:36","slug":"the-witchhunt-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/2014\/05\/23\/the-witchhunt-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"The Witch Hunt Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t you dare tell the truth about climate change, especially if you are a well known respected scientist.<\/p>\n<p><em>A globally-renowned climate scientist has been forced to step down from a think-tank after he was subjected to &#8216;Mc-Carthy&#8217;-style pressure from scientists around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Lennart Bengtsson, 79, a leading academic from the University of Reading, left the high-profile Global Warming Policy Foundation as a result of the threats, which he described as &#8216;virtually unbearable&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The group was set up by former Tory Chancellor Lord Lawson and are sceptical about radical policy changes aimed at combating global warming.<\/p>\n<p>The Swedish climatologist, who has published more than 200 papers, said he received hundreds of emails from colleagues criticising his decision to switch to the organisation. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2629171\/Climate-change-scientist-claims-forced-new-job-McCarthy-style-witch-hunt-academics-world.html\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t you dare tell the truth about climate change, especially if you are a well known respected scientist. A globally-renowned climate scientist has been forced to step down from a think-tank after he was subjected to &#8216;Mc-Carthy&#8217;-style pressure from scientists around the world. Professor Lennart Bengtsson, 79, a leading academic from the University of Reading, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}