Dear Sir;
You may be aware of the PR Challenge or Paleoclimate Reconstruction Challenge. http://www.pages.unibe.ch/science/prchallenge/index.html Many scientists of this group are the same “scientists” which give us the famous “Hockey Stick” reconstruction of our past climate. I should not have to remind you of the boondoggle surrounding the hockey stick stating with “We have to get rid of the Medieval Warm Period to any input number resulted in the same graph being reconstructed.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

I demand as a tax payer and citizen that:
A) An independent audit done to validate and verify all works from Paleoclimate Reconstruction Challenge before any government body and/or government employee can refer to and/or use in full and/or in part for any government function including the IPCC.
B) If any government funding is used in all and/or part of this reconstruction, the reconstruction shall be subjected to the principle of forecasting as described in Principles of Forecasting handbook.
C) If any government funding is used in all or part of this reconstruction, the reconstruction shall be subjected to the Data Quality Act.
D) If scientist and/or institution that does not comply with independent audit and/or principle of forecasting and/or Data Quality Act shall have his and/or hers and/or institution government funding suspended immediately.

Thank you,
Sincerely,

Agree ! BUT, I have been involved in auditing many, many software projects and I cannot say honestly that many of those have been version controlled in a way that would allow auditing of the past versions. Also, as you will know, for each version there should be a release note explaining what has changed, why it has changed and its affect on the data. It is that connection which is so important in climate systems. HOW has the software changed the data and why is the change valid and that is why achiving is so important. With archiving, we can take the data of that “era” and apply it to the software of that era and the latest version and make a comparison between the results then and now.

et voilà, an audit!

See Jon. That is how grown ups act. no stonewalling, no mealy mouthed crap.
I got it wrong. And Pat deserves my apology. and he gets it.