Yeah, but

Could this be true?

A leading climate scientist has resigned from the advisory board of a think-tank after being subjected to what he described as “McCarthy”-style pressure from fellow academics.

Professor Lennart Bengtsson, a research fellow at the University of Reading, said the pressure was so intense that he would be unable to continue working and feared for his health and safety unless he stepped down from the Global Warming Policy Foundation’s academic advisory council.

He said the pressure had mainly come from climate scientists in the US, including one employed by the US government who threatened to withdraw as co-author of a forthcoming paper because of his link with the foundation.

Well....

• Sure, this could be true. It's completely plausible, given the way some climate scientists behave. There's a lot of "we'll have consensus, dammit, d'ya understand" out there.
• The way to combat this is to expose who is supplying this pressure. Backing off in the face of it, then whining about it afterward, doesn't help anyone. Name names. Call these folks out.