> we know that these problems have lead to the replication crisis explicitly identified in other empirical sciences - why do you think no one is willing to ask the same, legitimate question about climate science

Oh, for Christ's sake. If anything, climate scientists talk about this more than most other specialties:

"Perspectives on Reproducibility and Replication of Results in Climate Science"

https://www.nap.edu/resource/25303/Reproducibility%20and%20R... (No, the National Academies of Sciences aren't comprised of crypto-socialist ideologues.)

It took literally 10 seconds of Googling to find that. Writing this comment is taking several times as long.

Perhaps the fever swamp that's constantly wondering if climate scientists understand basic science should perform basic due diligence on their own mental models of how the world works.