Crimson Dynamo
07-09-2023, 09:42 AM
A climate scientist has admitted overhyping the impact of global
warming on wildfires to ensure his work was published in the prestigious
science journal Nature.
Dr Patrick Brown, the co-director of the climate and energy team at The
Breakthrough Institute, Berkeley, published a paper last week arguing that
climate change had increased wildfires in California.
The Nature study has been accessed more than 3,000 times online and was
cited by 109 news outlets across the globe.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2023/09/06/TELEMMGLPICT000348248707_16940265709300_trans_NvBQ zQNjv4BqTAQyqiWCmTxlVY7rfhOQ0FHwtdpQwyNje2OyIL7x97 s.jpeg?imwidth=160
Dr Brown admitted that there were other factors influencing wildfires that he
had purposefully omitted – such as poor forestry management and an
increase in people starting fires deliberately or accidentally.
Dr Brown warned that climate scientists often used irrelevant metrics to
create “eye-popping numbers” or used time periods that are not relevant to
modern societies.
And he said he had discovered it was “taboo” to mention that global warming
was often mitigated by changes in technology and resilience.
“The first thing the astute climate researcher knows is that his or her work
should support the mainstream narrative,” he said.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/09/06/global-warming-climate-change-scientist-unrealistic-nature/#:~:text=A%20climate%20scientist%20has%20admitted, the%20prestigious%20science%20journal%20Nature.
warming on wildfires to ensure his work was published in the prestigious
science journal Nature.
Dr Patrick Brown, the co-director of the climate and energy team at The
Breakthrough Institute, Berkeley, published a paper last week arguing that
climate change had increased wildfires in California.
The Nature study has been accessed more than 3,000 times online and was
cited by 109 news outlets across the globe.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2023/09/06/TELEMMGLPICT000348248707_16940265709300_trans_NvBQ zQNjv4BqTAQyqiWCmTxlVY7rfhOQ0FHwtdpQwyNje2OyIL7x97 s.jpeg?imwidth=160
Dr Brown admitted that there were other factors influencing wildfires that he
had purposefully omitted – such as poor forestry management and an
increase in people starting fires deliberately or accidentally.
Dr Brown warned that climate scientists often used irrelevant metrics to
create “eye-popping numbers” or used time periods that are not relevant to
modern societies.
And he said he had discovered it was “taboo” to mention that global warming
was often mitigated by changes in technology and resilience.
“The first thing the astute climate researcher knows is that his or her work
should support the mainstream narrative,” he said.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/09/06/global-warming-climate-change-scientist-unrealistic-nature/#:~:text=A%20climate%20scientist%20has%20admitted, the%20prestigious%20science%20journal%20Nature.