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posted by takyon on Monday November 13 2017, @02:24AM   Printer-friendly
from the flame-on dept.

According to The Missoulian (archive):

Several of Missoula's top federal fire scientists have been denied permission to attend the International Fire Congress later this month, leading conference organizers to suspect censorship of climate-related research.

"Anyone who has anything related to climate-change research — right away was rejected," said Timothy Ingalsbee of the Association for Fire Ecology, a nonprofit group putting on the gathering. Ingalsbee noted that was his personal opinion, and that the AFE [Association for Fire Ecology] is concerned that a federal travel restriction policy may be more to blame.

The Missoulian also said (archive):

The scientists no longer attending include Matt Jolly, who was to present new work on "Climate-induced variations in global severe weather fire conditions," Karin Riley on "Fuel treatment effects at the landscape level: burn probabilities, flame lengths and fire suppression costs," Mike Battaglia on "Adaptive silviculture for climate change: Preparing dry mixed conifer forests for a more frequent fire regime," and Dave Calkin, who was working on ways to manage the human response to wildfire.

takyon: Also at Scientific American (thanks to another Anonymous Coward).


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  • (Score: 2) by unauthorized on Monday November 13 2017, @06:18AM (1 child)

    by unauthorized (3776) on Monday November 13 2017, @06:18AM (#596085)

    Twitter let's Trump account go down for 11 minutes everyone loses their mind and cries censorship

    No, a Twitter employee maliciously vandalizes Trump's profile for political purposes. This is a form of extremism, even it is the very definition of petty.

    Actual censorship of important science? That's just fine...

    Nobody, except for perhaps global warming denying morons think this is fine. And yes, people are more concerned about matters more immediately related to their lives, this isn't exactly rocket science.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 13 2017, @09:02AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 13 2017, @09:02AM (#596111)

    Actually much of it depends on rocket science since we use satellites for a lot of our global studies. Climate science is still an evolving field, so one might say it is even more complicated than rocket science.

    As for twitter, it was just a reference to how wildly out of proportion people reacted to what amounted to vandalism. It didn't even really count as censorship as you point out, but we've had scientists complaining since pretty much day one of Trump's presidency. The lack of outrage can only be explained by climate denying morons and other such idiots who think those elitist / corrupt scientists are just getting the house cleaning they deserve. The anti-intellectual movement in the US should concern everyone.