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No, Climate Scientists Aren’t Being Forced to Exaggerate
A researcher’s claim that a prominent journal sensationalizes findings on global warming doesn’t add up.
No need to exaggerate.
Photographer: Yuki Iwamura/AFP/Getty Images
It reads like a climate denier’s dream come true: A prestigious climate scientist publicly confesses he fudged research in order to get published.
That’s basically how excited headlines in right-wing media have portrayed scientist Patrick Brown’s claim this week that he oversold the influence of climate change on wildfire risks in order to get a paper published recently in the prestigious journal Nature.