I understand perfectly well that climate modelers want to own the
expertise about climate — it's only human — but surely contributions from outside that
narrow field should be welcomed, if disagreed with, rather than being dismissed out
of hand.
This history came back, triggered when I was recently explaining my «
narrow» career to someone in the mortgage
field, who had trouble believing I never got involved in explaining mortgaging, personally giving advice outside my area
of expertise, as many colleagues who get involved in that arena do, prequalifying buyers; never had them fill out an income statement (I didn't want to know how much money my clients earned, many even self - employed), even when they were my sellers, about to buy, but I always had written prequalification commitments in my hands to provide if and when needed, (that's all I needed to know, and have in writing), and I knew therefore who was in fact providing the funding; they did all the questions asking, not me.