Scientists are exaggerating the impact of “climate change” on natural disasters to have their research published in prestigious scientific journals, forcing them to intentionally omit other crucial contributing factors.
Dr. Patrick Brown – co-director of the climate and energy team at the Breakthrough Institute, Berkeley, and lecturer at Johns Hopkins University – recently published a paper suggesting climate change was the predominant factor causing a number of wildfires in California. He admitted, however, that he had intentionally omitted other factors, such as the state’s poor forest management, increasing population, and that over 80 percent of U.S. wildfires are started by humans.
The paper was pounced upon by over one hundred news outlets as proof that climate change was causing the wildfires. It was also accessed over 3,000 times online.
“The first thing the astute climate researcher knows is that his or her work should support the mainstream narrative… Why did I focus exclusively on the impact of climate change? I wanted the research to get as widely disseminated as possible, and thus I wanted it to be published in a high-impact journal,” Dr. Brown argued.
It has become “standard practice to calculate impacts for scary hypothetical future warming scenarios that strain credibility while ignoring potential changes to technology and resilience that would lessen the impact,” he added.
Much of the mainstream media’s reporting on European wildfires this summer has failed to mention that many in Greece and Spain were started by arsonists rather than climate change.
