Patrick T. Brown's study published in Nature magazine on Aug. 30 stated that climate change affected extreme wildfire behavior like the devastating fires in California and Maui.
He blamed his angle on the pressure scientists face to get their studies published in prestigious articles and the need to create catchy abstracts that can be turned into headlines. "You might be wondering at this point if I’m disowning my own paper. I’m not," Brown wrote."On the contrary, I think it advances our understanding of climate change’s role in day-to-day wildfire behavior.
"Identifying and focusing on problems rather than studying the effectiveness of solutions makes for more compelling abstracts that can be turned into headlines, but it is a major reason why high-profile research is not as useful to society as it could be," Brown wrote in an X thread on Sept. 5.
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