@jsmankin.bsky.social
climate scientist || documenting and predicting climate impacts || professor @dartmouth
https://geography.dartmouth.edu/people/justin-s-mankin
https://jsmankin.github.io/
@science.orgReposted by @jsmankin.bsky.social"Pricing El Niño is not the same as preventing its loss of life. Yet, many of those acting on its forecasts are using them to move money, not people, out of harm’s way," writes Justin S. Mankin in a new #ScienceEditorial. https://scim.ag/4huP0HI
@jsmankin.bsky.social"Pricing El Niño is not the same as preventing its loss of life. Yet, many of those acting on its forecasts are using them to move money, not people, out of harm’s way."
My editorial for Science on why hedging El Niño is not the same as adapting to it: www.science.org/eprint/DU6FR...
@jsmankin.bsky.social"The amendment misconstrues the design and purpose of emissions scenarios; imposes an ad hoc evaluation standard that no emissions scenario ... can meet; [and] it would create confusion and errors into an assessment that already effectively and accurately communicates scenario dependence."
