Emails Show DOI Falsified Fire Data for Political Ends

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Trump administration manipulated emissions reporting from the deadliest fires in California history to promote logging


Wes Siler
Feb 7, 2020
In November, 2018, the Camp and Woolsey Fires burned over 250,000 acres in California, killing 88 people, destroying over 20,000 buildings, and together costing $22.5 billion. It was the deadliest, most destructive month for wild fires in California ever, and the Camp Fire alone was the costliest natural disaster anywhere in the world in 2018. Emails obtained by The Guardian last month show the Trump administration asked its scientists to manipulate data about emissions produced by the fires to support its promotion of the logging industry.

“Can you have Brad and Todd gin up an estimate on the total [CO2] equivalent releases are so far for the current 2 [fires],” wrote James Reilly, director of the United States Geological Survey in an email to agency scientists on November 16, 2018. “That would make a decent sound bite the [Secretary of the Interior] could use to put some perspective on it.” Reilly is a Trump appointee with a record of suppressing climate change science.

https://www.outsideonline.com/2409114/interior-falsified-fire-data-emails-show

[Maraya1969]

1. When he was diagnosed as a malignant narcissist we should just remember that.