Reply #19: Look at open source. Everyone has access.

[joshcryer]

But the truly breathtaking projects have dozens of people on it. When you look at, say, GISS, you know it's just one or two guys at most. Hundreds of thousands of lines of code, by one or two, maybe, just maybe three guys. Now they actually got asinine comments in the past to have all of the code made user friendly.

So do you spend your time doing science or do you spend your time making code user friendly? Code that most likely won't even be used by anyone who claims to be a skeptic.

I suspect the system would sort it all out in the end, the peer review has done great so far, but when you give "skeptics" fuel to their fire, they will run with it. And as climate gate has shown, these guys are terrified that untruths are going to win the day. They want the public to be educated about the truth of global warming, but they are constantly hammered on a regular basis with innuendo and outright lies.

*Using the very data that they provided freely.*