Saturday, January 04, 2020

Research group takes down controversial Indonesia fire analysis

What is perhaps the lesson learnt here? That most likely the recent reports about huge fires in the Amazon are dramatic exaggerations as well! What about the fires raging now in Australia? As usual, environmental ideologues are spreading scaremongering & demagoguery!

"The Indonesian government and local scientists had criticized the analysis, by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), saying that it relied on satellite data that hadn’t been confirmed with ground observations. ... On 6 December, CIFOR took down the analysis from its blog. “CIFOR’s practice is to submit our research to the scrutiny of the peer-review process carried out by scientific journals. In this case, that practice was not fully adhered to. We regret this oversight and apologize to our readers,” says Robert Nasi, CIFOR’s director-general."

Research group takes down controversial Indonesia fire analysis: The government had criticized the claim that more than 1.6 million hectares were burnt this year.

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