[HN Gopher] A climate scientist wanted to start a debate in acad...
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       A climate scientist wanted to start a debate in academia. He set
       off a firestorm
        
       Author : gardenfelder
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2023-09-23 18:11 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | pauldenton wrote:
       | Why don't more climate scientists cover mismanagement? Like
       | letting dead wood pile up and not doing forest management?
        
         | jtriangle wrote:
         | In California, underbrush is actually managed somewhat decently
         | on state owned land, the problem is, most land is not state
         | owned, nor is it managed well, so, it all catches fire and once
         | a fire is going, it tends to not really require underbrush to
         | spread so all land is vulnerable.
         | 
         | This has been the case for decades now, and the state refuses
         | to do anything about it.
        
       | gardenfelder wrote:
       | "The paper I just published -- 'Climate warming increases extreme
       | daily wildfire growth risk in California' -- focuses exclusively
       | on how climate change has affected extreme wildfire behavior. I
       | knew not to try to quantify key aspects other than climate change
       | in my research because it would dilute the story that prestigious
       | journals like Nature and its rival, Science, want to tell," wrote
       | Brown, co-director of the climate and energy team at the
       | Breakthrough Institute, in Berkeley.
        
         | musicale wrote:
         | Nothing new for many publication venues, but nice to see it
         | mentioned explicitly.
        
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