Terence Tao on Nostr: This seems an appropriate time to repost the #PCAST report (that I was involved in ...

This seems an appropriate time to repost the #PCAST report (that I was involved in creating) on enhancing prediction of extreme weather events: https://www.whitehouse.gov/pcast/briefing-room/2023/04/24/pcast-releases-report-on-enhancing-prediction-and-protecting-communities-against-extreme-weather-risk/ . In principle there is ample public and private data sets available that would allow the public to accurately assess the potential human and economic impacts of extreme weather events, such as the fires currently active in Los Angeles a few miles from where I live and work; but there needs to be a coordinated effort, led by the federal government, to synthesize the data, and create benchmarks to standards to evaluate, and incentivize the creation of, high quality catastrophe models.