@Ruth_Mottram The whole notion of software as infrastructure still needs to be developed, both in government and academia. Academia needs to adjust criteria for promotion so as to no longer disincentivize software maintenance and development. There needs to be a middle infrastructure layer between email and running an HPC center that is about software development. At the university, national and EU level.

The Research Software Engineering "movement" in the UK is great. More of that!

@Ruth_Mottram Europe in particular is spectacularly bad at supporting scientific software development and maintenance. This is a prime example of it. There should be (at leat) one european climate model that is considered Infrastructure and funded accordingly and in a long term way.

The US national labs are luckily different, but the election is again proof that relying on them is problematic.