Halloween is very scary for climate scientists this year. In Washington, the House “science” committee is on a witch-hunt for researchers who publish inconvenient truths. With nearly unlimited subpoena power, these new inquisitors are intimidating individual scientists by demanding years of unrelated emails and internal documents, demands that come with associated legal costs and career disruption for each researcher. This effort to ‘chill’ the work of scientists is destructive in many ways. We discuss.

The reading list:

• Dave Roberts at VOX lays out the issues clearly
• Some commentary on the NOAA subpoena
• Climate Crocks weighs in
• Hartmann on video
• Mashable's report
• NOAA refuses to comply with the subpoena

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Thanks for listening.

…Ted McIntyre