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A climate scientist wanted to start a debate in academia. He set off a firestorm
- gardenfelder 3y ago“The paper I just published — ‘Climate warming increases extreme daily wildfire growth risk in California’ — focuses exclusively on how climate change has affected extreme wildfire behavior. I knew not to try to quantify key aspects other than climate change in my research because it would dilute the story that prestigious journals like Nature and its rival, Science, want to tell,” wrote Brown, co-director of the climate and energy team at the Breakthrough Institute, in Berkeley.
- musicale 3y agoNothing new for many publication venues, but nice to see it mentioned explicitly.
- pauldenton 3y agoWhy don't more climate scientists cover mismanagement? Like letting dead wood pile up and not doing forest management?
- jtriangle 3y agoIn California, underbrush is actually managed somewhat decently on state owned land, the problem is, most land is not state owned, nor is it managed well, so, it all catches fire and once a fire is going, it tends to not really require underbrush to spread so all land is vulnerable. This has been the case for decades now, and the state refuses to do anything about it.
- amanaplanacanal 3y agoAlmost 50% is federally owned. It’s hard to see what the state can do about that.