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Re:Climate models are running red hot, and scientists don’t ... by turbinerneiter on Monday February 03, 2020 @10:36AM (#22225034)
If your model suddenly changes its predictions, you need to make 100% sure you know why and that is valid.

Just imagine they would go public with this "Scientists found climate change is worse than previously thought with updated model" and then weeks later find an error in the changes made to the model "Scientists made mistakes, climate change less severe than previously thought".

What do you think would hurt their credibility more?

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Re:Climate models are running red hot, and scientists don’t ... by hugh-avherald on Monday February 03, 2020 @10:52AM (#22225221)
Well this is the problem. People are reticient to make public a private finding that is different, because it is probably wrong and they'll probably lose credibility. But if everyone is doing that...
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Re:Climate models are running red hot, and scientists don’t ... by turbinerneiter on Monday February 03, 2020 @11:31AM (#22225707)
They are not reticent to make it public, they are publishing papers and are asking for peer review. There is a public newspaper article about it with quotes of the involved scientists. They couldn't be any more transparent about this.

They are not throwing away their findings and they are not burying it. They are working to valdiate/invaldiate them, because they are scientists.

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