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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 Mykl on Tuesday November 14 2017, @10:54PM

    by Mykl (1112) on Tuesday November 14 2017, @10:54PM (#597039)

    You should read the links that you post. The "Great Stink" was an example of a country realizing they have a pollution problem and taking action to address it for the good of the country (including business!). If you are arguing against addressing pollution, then this link is the opposite of that.

    By the way, there's a great documentary series on Netflix called the Seven Wonders of the Industrial World [netflix.com]. Episode 5 focuses on the Great Stink and the building of the sewer system. Amazing stuff.

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