It is not 'suddenly' the benchmark. 1.5C is the basis of the Paris agreement and so scenarios that meet them have been the benchmark for the last 10 years.

thank you for all your stile-related content. I didn't know I needed this, but as a now 16 year expat Northerner, I really do...

and also, by way of illustration, of the 25-30 awesome and hardworking people who are involved in finalizing NorESM right now, probably only about 2-3 of them are on any social media at all...

...or analysing the output of models that other people made 20 years ago ;)
I guess this is kindof my point. No-one doing this has time to talk about how hard it is. So the sheer amount of work and thought and creative problem solving and focus and perseverance involved goes rather under the radar.

Same for veg models in my limited experience.

And, at interview, when you’re asked where all your first author papers are and you say, eh but…veg model (see code), it doesn’t count.

It doesn’t count like it should to do really hard things. I should have stuck to stats.

Sorry, mini rant over 🙈

...noting that this is not for want of excellent people or systems. It's just fundamentally really difficult...

I mean, it isn't actually acceptable...

Pls repost or whatever it's called now... (@nmacbean.bsky.social @mdekauwe.bsky.social) :)

Our hope here is thus to foster more awareness of and participation in ISI-MIP experiments, share challenges, and raise & answer questions.

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ISI-MIP is a major forum for climate impact assessment, & for many sectors land surface models provide a large % of projections. But (unlike the use of land surface models by coupled Earth System Models), connection between impact assessment teams & LSM developers does not happen automatically

OK I added you now :)