Real Climate: Please, show us your code

Unreal Climate or UN Real Climate?

The Team over at Real Climate now agrees with what many of us have been saying for a long time.  Code and data for scientific papers should be made available. Sort of.  

In their recent post they want code and data from another scientist in order the replicate the study: 

Please, show us your code 

I’ve made this same request, numerous times: 

• Lack of disclosure continues
• Scientific method for K-12: a model climate scientists should follow
• Climate Scientists: Show us your code
• Gavin Schmidt – Code and data for GIStemp is available

It seems that The Team has some slightly different requirements on who should show their code and data, depending on the situation. 

Side note:  I’d post some links to the post, but it appears RealClimate.org is down. I tried for  about 30 minutes today at 9:00-9:30 PM Colorado time, and got two different results with both Internet Explorer and Firefox: 

504 Gateway Time-out
503 Service Temporarily Unavailable 

I wonder if they’re getting “hacked” again?  We never did hear if there was even a police report filed on that one, did we? 

Anyway, back on topic. 

Gavin also makes this response to comment 107: 

[Response: Because a) the Harry document isn't code - it's a work log, and b) the dataset he was working on (CRU TS 3.0) has been released with the documented problems resolved. These documents are nothing even close to a complete and current archive of all production code. - gavin] 

Funny thing, The Team is now suggesting that code and data should be released, and then use the argument above that the leaked CRU files aren’t the complete work.  

OK…then release all of it.