The Imperial College Model : "If anyone in SAGE or the Government had shown the code to a working software engineer they happened to know, alarm bells would have been rung immediately..."

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There was a leak of climate scientists code a while back (10 years ago I think). It was the most sloppy, disorganised, unreadable ruby code I’d ever seen or seen since (and ruby is known for being sloppy). How anyone could trust such code is beyond me. It shows that they’d likely never seen ‘any’ other code.

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The program was likely purposely built to produce a favorable result rather than an accurate prediction.

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More than likely. Tweak code by checking if output produces expectations. I write unit tests like that sometimes, oops.

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I have little reason to doubt what is said in the article linked, because academic code is notoriously bad.

The incentives for climate-scientists is kinda like a preacher coming out and saying God is a lie. His career would be over, and his entire life would be a lie. I mean imagine giving $1m in funding to an organization that just comes back a year later, "Nope, we found nothing but random noise!"