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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: 5, Insightful) by meustrus on Monday November 13 2017, @09:24PM

    by meustrus (4961) on Monday November 13 2017, @09:24PM (#596469)

    I've noticed that a lot of climate change deniers seem to believe in a conspiracy by scientists to push the climate change agenda. Researchers are being disingenuous about the climate for some nefarious purpose, usually boiling down to something akin to globalism.

    Well let me ask you this: When scientists are barred from discussing climate change, where is the conspiracy? When the EPA suddenly strikes all of its climate-change-related data from public availability, where is the conspiracy? When the oligarchs who have gained power over the executive branch of the federal government are engaged in actively suppressing certain information, where is the conspiracy? When those same oligarchs at the same time use their power to parcel out federal lands to wealthy energy corporations, ignoring not just environmentalists but the local fishing industries that stand to lose everything from a single industrial accident, where is the conspiracy?

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