Andover Climate Change Lecture Gets Heated

ANDOVER, MA -- The moderator of a lecture on climate change at Memorial Hall Library had to end the talk early and call police after some attendees began heckling the speaker. Boston University Prof. Anthony Janetos was giving a talk on his own research, as well as the most recent U.S. National Climate Change Assessment that he co-wrote, when some audience members began yelling "liar" and saying he was "not a real scientist."

"One member in the audience was so adamant that climate change science is a farce that he accused Janetos of being 'a liar,'" lecture attendee Alison Page, 34, wrote in a letter to the Eagle-Tribune, which first reported this story. "This caused a woman in the back of the room to erupt in anger and start name calling."

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