as an observation as to the reason for some of his criticism.  I said he brought some of that on himself by holding back the code that produces his results.  But yes that seems to have been resolved.

As for "independently replicated", I don't see how that would have been possible prior to his publishing his code in September, as far as GISS surface temp analysis goes, at least.

I suspect there will be minor quibbles about fudge factors for certain sites (that critics will blow out of proportion!).  But still, he could have deflected a lot of criticism by being open much earlier.

I'll look into it further and post some links to what I find.