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Often, they want to chat about my findings or have me draw out the implications for their businesses, like the time a risk analyst from BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, asked me to help with research on what the current El Niño, a cyclical climate pattern, means for financial markets.

I point companies to our freely available data and code at the Dartmouth Climate Modeling and Impacts Group, which I run, but turn down additional requests for customized assessments.

People and companies who can afford private risk assessments will rent, buy and establish homes and businesses in safer places than the billions of others who can’t, compounding disadvantage and leaving the most vulnerable among us exposed.

The privatization of climate information is already upending my professional community, as scientists leave academia and national labs for high-paying start-up and consulting jobs.

At a minimum, it means that individuals could log into a website and quickly access a clear climate risk assessment for where they live based on validated, transparent and reproducible science without entering their credit card information to pay for it.

Getting there will require greater federal investments in applied climate risk science, while ensuring that any publicly funded research is held to stringent standards of openness.

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