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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: 0, Flamebait) by bradley13 on Monday November 13 2017, @12:17PM

    by bradley13 (3053) on Monday November 13 2017, @12:17PM (#596140) Homepage Journal

    From TFA, first, we have the person complaining

    "Those folks are doing critical analysis on fire suppression effectiveness, which is a new area of research.”

    But his complaint was that people giving papers on AGW were cut - now, suddenly, they were actually on-topic? Anyway, the person handling the selections said:

    "the Forest Service allowed his lab to send six people to the Orlando conference. He had 20 applicants. ... We were offered six slots to fill. There was no criteria or requirement for the kinds of people or things they talked about."

    So it's limited attendance, the people cut were not rejected by the conference, but by a higher level in their own organization. At least, that's how I read it.

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