There’s a lot of public climate model code out there, and computing things like solar irradiance is simple and there isn’t any particular need for a specialized degree for it. I’d guess you have most of the math you need by midway through high school (or whenever you hit partial differential equations) and the rest is finding and reading the right paper or dissertation. 

Building a credible model would take a degree, but grabbing parts of already built models doesn’t. I did have an atmospheric sciences class in college in which I did MPI numeric simulations on atmospheric conditions but of course this would be a significant extension over that (in fact, IIRC my first several MPI programs were atmospheric simulation for that class). 

Fortunately, this is just a game and anything that is an improvement over -2° C per hex of latitude will help. 

So you're getting your PhD in environmental simulations when?

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