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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 BK on Monday November 13 2017, @03:05AM (3 children)

    by BK (4868) on Monday November 13 2017, @03:05AM (#596046)

    /I've always wanted to do this.

    It's Smokey Bear, not Smokey THE Bear.
    And, for the record:
    Santa Claus, not Santa THE Clause.
    etc.

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by Gaaark on Monday November 13 2017, @04:26AM

    by Gaaark (41) on Monday November 13 2017, @04:26AM (#596062) Journal

    Is it BK pedant, or BK THE pedant?
    :)
    OMG! I pedanted a pedant. Does that make me a pedo?

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 13 2017, @04:29AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 13 2017, @04:29AM (#596064)

    In 1952, Steve Nelson and Jack Rollins wrote the popular anthem that would launch a continuous debate about Smokey’s name. To maintain the rhythm of the song, they added “the” between “Smokey” and “Bear.” Due to the song’s popularity, Smokey Bear has been called “Smokey the Bear” by many adoring fans, but, in actuality, his name never changed. He’s still Smokey Bear.

    ( https://smokeybear.com/en/smokeys-history/story-of-smokey [smokeybear.com] )

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 13 2017, @02:04PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 13 2017, @02:04PM (#596182)

    There is no Sanity Clause.