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CLIMATE SCIENTIST OVERHYPED GLOBAL WARMING
ON WILDFIRES TO GET PUBLISHED
Scientist reports research that argues against climate change is 'taboo' in certain journals

A climate scientist has admitted overhyping the impact of global warming on wildfires to ensure his work was published in the prestigious science journal Nature.

Dr Patrick Brown, the co-director of the climate and energy team at The Breakthrough Institute, Berkeley, published a paper last week arguing that climate change had increased wildfires in California.

The Nature study has been accessed more than 3,000 times online and was cited by 109 news outlets across the globe.

But in a blog and series of posts on X, formerly known as Twitter, Dr Brown admitted that there were other factors influencing wildfires that he had purposefully omitted – such as poor forestry management and an increase in people starting fires deliberately or accidentally.

He said he had found that journals would not publish climate studies unless they followed a specific “formula” and “mainstream narrative” in which global warming was viewed as the sole culprit for environmental destruction.

Nature denied it had a preferred narrative and said it was “considering the implications” of Dr Brown’s admission, adding that his comments reflect irresponsible and poor research practices.

Dr Brown warned that climate scientists often used irrelevant metrics to create “eye-popping numbers” or used time periods that are not relevant to modern societies.

And he said he had discovered it was “taboo” to mention that global warming was often mitigated by changes in technology and resilience.

“The first thing the astute climate researcher knows is that his or her work should support the mainstream narrative,” he said.

“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.

“When I had previously attempted to deviate from the formula I outlined here, my papers were promptly rejected out of hand by the editors of high-profile journals without even going to peer review.”

He added: “This type of framing, where the influence of climate change is unrealistically considered in isolation, is the norm for high-profile research papers.

“It is 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.”

"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts." - Sherlock Holmes / Sir. Arthur Conan Doyle
And given fifty years of seeing these arguments, initially claiming from the 60s to the 80s a global Ice Age was coming, and then the 90s on up claiming the ice caps would melt by 2012...

BARSTOOL CEO DAVE PORTNOY
CONFRONTS WASHINGTON POST REPORTER
ABOUT UPCOMING FAKE NEWS HIT PIECE

He also posted the email on Barstool’s website with the name of the sponsor redacted. The event’s partners include hard seltzer High Noon, C4 Energy, Coca-Cola, and ’47, among others.

Portnoy, who recently reacquired Barstool Sports from Penn Entertainment for $1, called Heil’s message “tortious interference” — referring to intentional damage to his professional relationships with a third party to cause economic harm.

He was also furious that the reporter had not reached out to him directly.

Heil contended that she planned to contact Portnoy on Thursday morning, but hadn’t yet because she hadn’t come up with “specific questions” for the Barstool boss.

Heil denied sending any kind of message before
Portnoy read the message back to her. He also
posted the email to Barstool’s website.

“Anybody who’s listening to this, to think that you were going to give me a fair chance when you’re leading to our sponsors before you talk to me is crazy,” Portnoy retorted, claiming Heil’s upcoming “hit piece” would surely include “all this stuff you’re about to make up against me.”

“The Washington Post, which is a wildly left-leaning publication, you have things you’ve said. You hate Trump. You hate Elon. Not that I’m those people. To think you’re gonna give me a fair shake. I wasn’t born yesterday,” he added.

By the end of the call, the two agreed to speak at 10 a.m. Thursday. However, late Wednesday, Portnoy tweeted that the call was canceled, and the paper “proposed 5 p.m. instead.”

“I said 10 a.m. or nothing. They refused,” he added.

The Post has sought comment from Heil, the Washington Post and Portnoy.

The 46-year-old internet celebrity has faced accusations from several women of sexual misconduct and rough sex that turned humiliating, but Portnoy strongly denied the claims, as The Post previously reported.

Three other women told Business Insider that Portnoy filmed their sexual encounters without permission. He sued the publication this year but eventually dropped his lawsuit.

The inaugural One Bite Pizza Festival, borne out of Portnoy’s popular “One Bite Pizza Reviews” that he shares on YouTube, is 95% sold out, according to its website.

Some all-inclusive tickets are still available for $219.99 and VIP tickets are going for $699.99 for the event, which will be held at Maimonides Park in Brooklyn.

Another case of the mainstream media working to attack and smear. There was Katie Couric's attempt to embarass pro-gun activists by editing the content and CBS's 60 Minutes editing their interview with DeSantis to smear him.. Of course, I could go further with more.

Oh, and the festival went off without a hitch and was a big success.

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