You still didn't answer me whether you've thoroughly reviewed their code before dismissing my comments. Did you? You can approach it as an insider researcher "

You still didn't answer me whether you've thoroughly reviewed their code before dismissing my comments. Did you? You can approach it as an insider researcher "on their side" and try to correct it, but the problem is just so big you're not going to get flawless models without time, and they have already shrugged serious problems in the past with "flux adjustment". You'll get endless errata and retractions but you'll never get a narrative shift. Or you can try to approach it from the outside like countless scientists have done and get called oil companies shill, climate denier and what not. The academic "climate" around it is very "hot". So eventually you just go and forget it and do something productive with your life instead of literally fighting windmills. (And I did mean literally as a joke about renewable energy).