Remember Patrick Brown? He’s the scientist who overemphasized climate change’s role in wildfires to help get his paper published in Nature.

Brown admitted as much. He was a whistleblower, who sounded the alarm on the nation’s top science journals for what he contends is their bias for preferring papers that support the narrative that human activity is the primary cause of extreme climate change while ignoring other factors.

On the recent LA fires, Brown is pragmatic:

'Devastating events prompt people to search for villains, but reality is more complicated. Climate change may be making fires more dangerous, but it isn’t meaningfully affecting California’s high winds and drought.'via @collegefix