As I can't
comment all, I'll focus
on this one: Over the longer term, weather becomes random simply because there are small random variations in solar input (not to mention butterflies) and what
matters is the statistics of the weather —
climate.
Here are my edits of Ben Santer's
comment, so that it applies to me: In fact, my position
on this
matter was that Mr. McIntyre's data requests were superfluous and frivolous, since Mr. McIntyre already had access to all of the raw
climate model data my colleagues and I had used.