Fighting Back - The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars - page 170

plausible explanation: that he is on a fishing expedition designed to intimidate and suppress honest
research … because he does not like what science says about climate change”—as of November
2011 he still hadn't given up his crusade. 103 Fossil fuel interests are working hard to assist him. 104
Meanwhile, climate change contrarians continue to launch hand grenades, 105 the denial machine
persists in churning out disinformation, 106 and the attacks against climate scientists 107 —myself
included 108 —continue. Yet something is different now. The forces of climate change denial have , I
believe, awakened a “sleeping bear.” My fellow scientists will be fighting back, and I look forward
to joining them in this battle.