My point was that it seems like the model might be flawed, or at least is poorly written and/or documented. As you say, this Ian guy is clearly not impressed wi

My point was that it seems like the model might be flawed, or at least is poorly written and/or documented. As you say, this Ian guy is clearly not impressed with the code. This qoute describes it rather well: Ulp! I am seriously close to giving up, again. The history of this is so complex that I can't get far enough into it before by head hurts and I have to stop. Each parameter has a tortuous history of manual and semi-automated interventions that I simply cannot just go back to early versions and run the update prog. I could be throwing away all kinds of corrections - to lat/lons, to WMOs (yes!), and more. So what the hell can I do about all these duplicate stations?... The problem I see is not something as dire as a conspiracy, but the fact that this is the foundation of the western worlds policy on global warming and climate change. I think we all know how hard a model like that must be to write and maintain, and it seems like there's a good chance it doesn't give reliable results. I would say that it is a huge problem that multibillion dollar decisions are based on a model that may or may not be accurate, and that maybe we should start the discussion on climate change by putting more money into actually finding out where we stand by creating good peer-reviewed models with open data. As it stands now it seems like we might be flying blind. Sorry if I didn't make myself clear.