Thanks to Damian Carrington for highlighting the emotional toll of working on climate science (‘We have emotions too’: Climate scientists respond to attacks on objectivity, 25 October). As co-chairs of the Climate Psychology Alliance (CPA), we applaud the scientists’ courage in speaking out.
Climate scientists are frontline emergency workers in need of support. They spend every day seeing and studying in depth the consequences of our governments’ pusillanimous failure to act. And when they bear witness to it, they are often attacked, especially if they are women, people of colour or from the global south. Being alone with difficult feelings and believing that they are denied by others makes them even harder to bear.
