No, it's rather important, vital indeed, that code is published. Ironically Phil Jones of the UK Met Centre made this point himself:

    "We have 25 or so years invested in the work. Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try and find something wrong with it. "

Some of us always thought that having your ideas and results discussed and examined in a public forum was what science, an intensely cooperative activity, was about.

- And especially when public policy often demanding massive input from the taxpayer depends on it.