Fri Sep 8, 2023 – 4:58 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — A climate scientist admitted to overhyping the effect global warming has on wildfires.
Patrick Brown, a lecturer at John Hopkins University who holds a Ph.D. in Earth and Climate Science, said that he chose to present data in his research paper in a way that focused on climate change in order to get published in the prestigious Nature magazine.
In a series of posts on X (formerly Twitter), Brown explained that in his recently published article titled “Climate warming increases extreme daily wildfire growth risk in California,” he focused on the effect that warming has on forest fires instead of highlighting other relevant factors.
Brown said his “research looked at the effect of warming in isolation, but that warming is just one of many important influences on wildfires with others being changes in human ignition patterns and changes in vegetation/fuels.”
“So why didn’t I include these obviously relevant factors in my research from the outset? Why did I focus exclusively on the impact of climate change?”
“Put simply, I’ve found that there is a formula for success for publishing climate change research in the most prestigious and
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