I Left Out the Full Truth to Get My Climate Change Paper Published

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I just got published in Nature because I stuck to a narrative I knew the editors would like. That’s not the way science should work.

If you’ve been reading any news about wildfires this summer—from Canada to Europe to Maui—you will surely get the impression that they are mostly the result of climate change. 

Here’s the AP: Climate change keeps making wildfires and smoke worse. Scientists call it the “new abnormal.”

And PBS NewsHour: Wildfires driven by climate change are on the rise—S…

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