CLIMATE: the Ethiopia Food Crisis-Uses and Limits of Climate Forecasts
Broad, K.; Agrawala, S.
Science 289(5485): 1693-1694
2000
ISSN/ISBN: 0036-8075 PMID: 17811149 Document Number: 513374
Post-cold war investment in science--particularly in the case of seasonal to interannual climate forecasting--is increasingly justified by the goal of demonstrating explicit societal benefit. A review of the 2000 food crisis in Ethiopia and the state of the science of seasonal forecasting is sobering and underscores the need to foster more realistic expectations among both policy-makers and scientists about the uses and limits of climate forecasts in alleviating complex social problems.