[whokal]

With sincerity, I think you may misunderstand what GP is pointing out. I understood “forecasts” to be a simulation run using a model. In that case, they took 14 models and ran those each at least once to come up with 17 predictions.

What GP wants is transparency around how many possible models were there over the last decades from which they chose the 14. This gives the reader a better understanding of whether 14 is a lot or a little. It is a fair point IMO regardless of their overall stance on the issue.

[mturmon]

They did a literature search and chose what was reproducible. This has been covered in TFA and highlighted by a comment nearby: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21709446