Dr. Adam Pollack has a new publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
“Unlocking the benefits of transparent and reusable science for climate-risk management” is a call-to-action for everyone who produces, funds, or relies on climate-risk information.
When the underlying data, code, and assumptions aren’t transparent and reusable, it slows improvement, makes benchmarking harder, and undermines trust. In the paper, we show there’s still substantial room for growth in meeting the field’s widely shared standards—especially at the paper level.
What gives us hope is that this is fixable and all actors in the climate-risk ecosystem have a role to play. In the paper we lay out:
* low-cost steps researchers and journals can adopt now
* a longer-term vision where institutions and funders invest in shared benchmarks, training, and access to key datasets so that the benefits scale beyond individual papers and to realize synergies across sectors
* low-cost steps researchers and journals can adopt now
* a longer-term vision where institutions and funders invest in shared benchmarks, training, and access to key datasets so that the benefits scale beyond individual papers and to realize synergies across sectors