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What, that's hardly anything new.  An assumption behind all academic publishing is that it's too boring/difficult for the general public.  Another is that nobody who's not employed at an institution with a research library could possibly understand or care about the material anyway.

Anyway, I keep hearing that most climate change research is based on incredibly complicated models that are entirely secret to the begin with - it's only the data from such models that are published.

by Zwackus on Thu Dec 24th, 2009 at 07:24:36 AM EST
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"climate change research is based on incredibly complicated models that are entirely secret"

Actually that's not the case. The code for the models (many of them) is available. You might want a supercomputer...

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/data-sources/#GCM_code

by asdf on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 12:56:12 AM EST
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