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Old 10-02-2013, 11:38 AM   #1132 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Occasionally6 View Post
No, because the quantity of heat energy trapped depends on local temperature. The way in which heat is moved around (via mass transfer) affects local temperature depending on where it ends up. Heat energy is not the same thing as temperature.



Even access to the full papers won't tell you that. The method used will be described and the results discussed. There is sufficient information for another group of people to duplicate the work if it is possibly equivocal or avoid duplicating if it is not. In either case an alternative method may - almost invariably will - be used as a check by another group.

There is sufficient information in the abstracts to get an idea of the approach taken anyway.

In the case of models, the detailed code is not accessible. That is the IP of the people doing the work.
Then how is that pier reviewed science, when they will not share their IP? How do they verify their results if the only ones they share those calculations with are others who believe the same way. Science should be open, open for review, open for scrutiny otherwise it is not Science.