I'm currently an undergraduate studying Geology in a southern US university and many of my peers and I both feel strongly towards climate science and were considering studying it during graduate school. However, we all agree that it feels personally hurtful when you explain your scientific stances on climate change and relatives, friends, employers, and others rip us apart and hurl hurtful comments personally against us. For some reason it is wrong to want to study empirical data in the 21st century? I'm actually fearful for the future of climate study not only because of political pressure against it, but because no students will want to go into a field where people send death threats in retaliation to evidence.