Hundreds of climate scientists are joining a campaign to push back against critics, including politicians skeptical of climate change who have investigated or threatened to investigate researchers, the Chicago Tribune reported. The campaign, which the American Geophysical Union is expected to announce on Monday, represents a shift among climate scientists, many of whom have avoided the news media but now say they are willing to speak out against what they see as misinformation. “This group feels strongly that science and politics can’t be divorced,” said Scott A. Mandia, a professor of physical sciences at the State University of New York’s Suffolk County Community College, “and that we need to take bold measures to not only communicate science but also to aggressively engage the denialists and politicians who attack climate science and its scientists.”
