Tellus Senior Fellow Rich Rosen has a letter to the editor in the latest edition of Nature Climate Change on the peer review process for integrated assessment models (IAMs). The letter concludes, “In 2013, the IAM Consortium — which was set up at the request of the IPCC after the Fourth Assessment Report and of which I am a member — set up scientific working groups intending to establish communitywide standards on IAM documentation and
the inclusion of key input assumptions in research publications. There has been little
or no progress since. It is my contention that this situation should be rectified, so as
to usher in a new era for peer reviews in this field.
