A Recent Climate Statement

http://www.pacinst.org/climate/climate_statement.pdf:

"We also call for an end to McCarthy- like threats of criminal prosecution against our colleagues based on innuendo and guilt by association, the harassment of scientists by politicians seeking distractions to avoid taking action, and the outright lies being spread about them. Society has two choices: we can ignore the science and hide our heads in the sand and hope we are lucky, or we can act in the public interest to reduce the threat of global climate change quickly and substantively. The good news is that smart and effective actions are possible. But delay must not be an option."

This  certainly gets to the essentials of the matter. It really does no end of harm in the long run attempting to keep punishing the bearers of bad news. Indeed new opportunities are provided for those societies that can manage to keep their eyes open to the nature of reality via resilient government policies aware of new scientific discoveries of all sorts.

Be sure to read the rest of this very interesting statement.