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In an article published in Socio-Environmental Systems Modelling, Reinecke and his co-authors point out the lack of a clear definition of the term "Digital Twin of the Earth," which may be misleading.

"All digital representations of our planet are model representations. As such, they will always be detached from reality -- as a map can never fully replicate the land it depicts," said Reinecke.

Reinecke and his team at the JGU Institute of Geography work with models that encompass the whole planet, and he understands the motivation of the EU initiative.

Professor Robert Reinecke and his two co-authors, Professor Francesca Pianosi of the University of Bristol in the UK and Alexander von Humboldt Professor Thorsten Wagener of the University of Potsdam, consider the term Digital Twin of the Earth problematic and inappropriate because "it suggests that we can create a digital representation that allows us to stress-test the structural properties of the Earth system with any desired degree of accuracy and precision," as they pointed out in their paper in Socio-Environmental Systems Modelling.

"We thus recommend refraining from using the term Digital Twin of the Earth," said Reinecke.