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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, Troll) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday November 13 2017, @09:53PM (1 child)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday November 13 2017, @09:53PM (#596494) Journal

    Here's one way: get thorium fission in modular reactors, thermal-mass solar, and a shitload of wind power going. Change farming to work more with the available soils and resources. Cut ties with foreign powers for basic things like oil.

    Oh, and round up all the fucking corrupt greedheads and burn them alive, broadcasting their screaming, flailing, agonizing deaths on international TV. There's a start. Shithead.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 16 2017, @05:07PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 16 2017, @05:07PM (#597769)

    You forgot several steps.

      - stripmine for thorium

      - stripmine for solar panel shit

      - stripmine for battery storage shit

      - stripmine for the fun of tearing the earth open to create barren, desert regions

      - watch your own grandchildren dying agonizing deaths from all the stripmine pollution

    Ahhhh, fuck the little mutants. Let them die.