{"id":2026948,"date":"2023-09-09T18:37:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T22:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scientist-publicly-admits-to-omitting-full-truth-of-climate-wildfires-causes-for-publication-says-its-typical\/"},"modified":"2023-09-09T18:43:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T22:43:41","slug":"scientist-publicly-admits-to-omitting-full-truth-of-climate-wildfires-causes-for-publication-says-its-typical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scientist-publicly-admits-to-omitting-full-truth-of-climate-wildfires-causes-for-publication-says-its-typical\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientist admits omitting &#8216;full truth&#8217; on climate wildfire causes, calls it typical."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fscientist-publicly-admits-to-omitting-full-truth-of-climate-wildfires-causes-for-publication-says-its-typical%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2026948&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Are both mainstream research and establishment media purposely misleading the public about wildfires\u2019 root causes?<\/h2>\n<p>A \u200dclimate researcher appears to\u2063 have affirmed this by exposing a \u201creward\u201d system \u200bin prestigious research journals like Nature and the\u200c mainstream media\u2019s handling of \u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/cruel-irony-maui-officials-attending-fema-disaster-training-blazes-began-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wildfire<\/a> stories.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Brown, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/here-are-the-professors-disparaging-rush-limbaughs-passing\/\" title=\"Here Are The Professors Disparaging Rush Limbaugh\u2019s Passing\">adjunct faculty member<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/thebreakthrough.org\/people\/patrick-brown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Johns Hopkins\u2062 University<\/a> and co-director of the Climate and \u2063Energy \u200bTeam at the Breakthrough Institute, shed \u200clight on the \u2063behind-the-scenes dynamics of high-profile\u2064 scientific \u200cjournals and their\u2064 preference for research that aligns with certain pre-approved \u2062narratives.<\/p>\n<p>In an \u200darticle in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/i-overhyped-climate-change-to-get-published\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Free\u2064 Press<\/a> titled \u201cI \u2064Left Out the Full Truth to Get My Climate Change Paper Published,\u201d\u00a0Brown alleged that \u201chigh-profile journals\u201d and the mainstream media deliberately misled the public by emphasizing \u2062climate change as the primary factor behind wildfires while downplaying other crucial influences.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2063 am a climate scientist. And while climate change is an\u2062 important factor affecting wildfires over many parts of the world, it isn\u2019t close to the only factor that deserves our sole focus,\u201d Brown said, questioning the media\u2019s obsession with attributing recent wildfires primarily to climate change.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">In the paper, I\u200c focused on the \u200cinfluence \u2063of climate change on \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-lefts-climate-whataboutism-is-on-full-display-in-california\/\" title=\"The Left\u2019s Climate \u2018Whataboutism\u2019 Is On Full Display In California\">extreme wildfire behavior<\/a> but did not quantify (i.e., I \u200d\u201cheld constant\u201d) the influence of other obviously relevant factors like\u2062 changes in human ignitions or the effect \u2062of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elder-reflection-of-my-failed-campaign\/\" title=\"ELDER: Reflection Of My Failed Campaign\">poor forest management<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Patrick T. Brown (@PatrickTBrown31)\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PatrickTBrown31\/status\/1699016571664908452?\">September 5, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He said that this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scientist-publicly-admits-to-omitting-full-truth-of-climate-wildfires-causes-for-publication-says-its-typical\/\" title=\"Scientist admits omitting 'full truth' on climate wildfire causes, calls it typical.\">selective publication process encourages scientists<\/a> to craft \u200dresearch that reinforces the \u201cmainstream\u201d perspective, even if it means omitting or downplaying alternative factors influencing wildfires.<\/p>\n<p>Brown\u2019s admission stems from his involvement in\u2064 a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-023-06444-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a> co-authored by him that attributed wildfires in California solely to climate change.<\/p>\n<p>This study, published in the prestigious scientific journal Nature, garnered significant attention, especially after\u200c Brown, the \u200dlead author of the study, published the \u200bFree Press article \u2064criticizing the publication practices.<\/p>\n<p>Brown <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PatrickTBrown31\/status\/1699016559853748351\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">took<\/a> to X, \u2063the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, admitting \u200bthat their research\u200b omitted other potential causes of wildfires, such as \u201cchanges in human ignition \u2062patterns and\u200b changes in land\u200b use and vegetation\/fuels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Brown, the \u2063decision to exclusively focus on the impact of\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tag\/climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">climate change<\/a> was driven by the desire\u200c to have the research published in a \u201chigh-impact journal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PatrickTBrown31\/status\/1699016559853748351\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>,\u200d \u201cThis\u2063 research looked at the effect\u2062 of warming \u2064in isolation, but \u200bthat warming is just one of many important\u2063 influences on wildfires.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his article, Brown bluntly highlights the incentive mechanism that\u2064 rewards scientists for fitting their research\u2063 into a \u201csimple storyline.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said that editors at esteemed journals prefer climate papers that align with \u201ccertain preapproved narratives\u2014even when those narratives come at the expense of broader knowledge for society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPut simply, I\u2019ve \u200dfound that\u2063 there \u2064is a formula for success for publishing climate change research in the most prestigious and widely-read scientific journals,\u201d Brown <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PatrickTBrown31\/status\/1699016566535270778\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted<\/a> on X, adding that including other \u201crelevant factors\u201d as \u200dthe cause\u200d of \u2062wildfires\u200d unfortunately \u201cmakes the research less useful.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We have a paper\u200d out \u2064today in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Nature?\">@Nature<\/a> on the \u200crole that human-caused\u2062 climate change is playing in changes in\u200c extreme wildfire behavior, at the daily \u200dtimescale, in California.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/C83frxJMUV\">https:\/\/t.co\/C83frxJMUV<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vzfc7yc312\">pic.twitter.com\/vzfc7yc312<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Patrick \u2062T. Brown (@PatrickTBrown31) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PatrickTBrown31\/status\/1696910491786858571?\">August 30,\u2062 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Additionally, Brown pointed out several tactics used in climate change fearmongering, \u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/climate-scientist-admits-to-leaving-out-the-truth-about-wildfire-causes-in-order-to-get-published-in-top-scientific-journal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The\u200b Blaze<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>These include downplaying\u200d meaningful actions that\u200c could\u2064 \u201ccounter the impact of climate change,\u201d focusing on sensational \u201cmetrics\u201d\u2062 at the expense of relevance or actionable information, and assessing climate change magnitude \u201cover centuries\u201d while ignoring technological and societal changes.<\/p>\n<p>Nature responded on Thursday, denying\u2063 any preferred \u2062narrative and highlighting recent articles that contradict Brown\u2019s claims, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2023\/09\/08\/bay-area-scientist-says-he-left-out-the-full-truth-to-get-climate-change-wildfire-study-published-in-prestigious-journal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The\u2062 Mercury News<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Editor-in-Chief Magdalena Skipper said they \u200dare assessing Brown\u2019s\u2064 actions, which they \u2064find reflect poor research practices \u200dand do not align with their \u2062journal\u2019s \u200cstandards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen it comes to science, Nature does not have a preferred narrative,\u201d Skipper said.<\/p>\n<p>Skipper also\u200d mentioned that peer reviewers had raised questions\u200c about missing variables in Brown\u2019s study, but the authors opposed their inclusion, a point disputed by Brown on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Co-author Steven J. Davis, a\u2064 UC Irvine Earth science professor, expressed surprise at Brown\u2019s comments, saying, \u201cwe don\u2019t know whether a different paper would have been rejected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Co-author Craig Clements,\u2064 head of San\u2063 Jose\u2063 State\u2019s wildfire\u200c research center, also praised\u200c the study for its robust scientific\u2063 work, including cutting-edge techniques like\u200c AI\u200d models.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI recognize journals such \u2062as Nature,\u200b one of the \u200cmost\u2063 respected science publications\u2063 in \u2064the world, have rigorous \u200ceditorial processes\u200c and\u200d appreciate the fact that they saw the value of the important science that this study advances,\u201d Clements said, \u200caccording \u2062to the Mercury News.<\/p>\n<p>Contrary \u2063to the recent studies \u2064published in research journals, reports from authorities have indicated that human ignition and even \u2063arson were the actual causes\u2063 of a number of recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/arsonists-learn-painful-lesson-light-fire-pouring-gas-business\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wildfires<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/largest-wildfire-state-history-still-50-contained-determined-arson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Louisiana<\/a>, authorities\u200d reported that the largest wildfire in the state was intentionally ignited in August, with a\u200d $2,000\u200d reward offered for information leading to the arrest\u200b and\u2063 conviction of those responsible.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, state authorities \u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ldaf.state.la.us\/news\/ldaf-agents-apprehend-tickfaw-arson-suspect\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that a 37-year-old individual was arrested\u2062 Aug. 26 for making threats to ignite a significant \u200cfire during a burn ban.<\/p>\n<p>In California,\u2062 a \u200bformer sociology and criminology \u2062professor \u2063faced charges for allegedly setting four wildfires in national forests as part of \u200can \u201carson spree\u201d during the summer of 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/11\/19\/us\/california-wildfires-gary-stephen-maynard.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/scientist-publicly-admits-omitting-full-truth-climate-wildfires-causes-publication-says-typical\/\">Scientist Publicly Admits to Omitting &#8216;Full Truth&#8217;\u200d of Climate Wildfires Causes for Publication \u2013 Says It&#8217;s Typical<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the Climate Science Policy Lab, has revealed a concerning pattern of deliberate misinformation regarding the root causes of wildfires. Brown&#8217;s findings suggest that prestigious research journals and mainstream media outlets are involved in a &#8220;reward&#8221; system that perpetuates misleading narratives. 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