Realclimate's FAQ is a good place to start looking if you're interested in climate models (data sources are on the strip menu at the top of the page). The site is run by people who are internationally recognized as being at the top of their field, the articles are both understandable to the layman and highly regarded in the climate science community. You could also try the IPCC data center. The IPCC don't do science, they periodically gather a mountain of recently published research on the subject in one place and condense it into reports, the ~2500 scientists who do this are not paid by the IPCC, they (or their university) donate the time and effort spent on this rigorous and tedious task. The "working group 1" report is the scientific meat but it requires a lot of chewing.

There's a world of difference between trolling and being blunt. I am being deliberately blunt.

Yes, and?

Read my other responses in this thread, it is you who is refusing to consider that your "contra-evidence" was thoroughly debunked long ago, the "back radiation" thing your banging on about below is currently ranked 60-something on the list of most popular bogus AGW arguments at skepticalscience.com.

I though I made that clear, it's you! The lengthy thread below has sufficiently demonstrated that diagnosis. I'm just trying to remind you that it is curable via self-skepticisim.

A much harder challenge is to find a credible climate scientist who is making that claim. For your "facts of life" edification here's an independent analysis of Roy Spencer, of course it's just a remarkable coincidence he belongs to the very same no-think tanks as Anthony Watts, right? While on the subject of coincidence, these are the same no-think tanks who (for a price*) supplied "scientists", "scientific reports", and "marketing advice" to the tobacco industry (showing smoking to be harmless) and at least one creationists group (showing evolution contradicts the 2nd law of TD).

* - If you want to baffle people with bullshit I highly recommend the expert propagandists at the Heartland Institute, they are extremely effective, surprisingly cheap, and appear to specialize in misinterpreting the 2nd law of TD for personal profit.

Jane, I'm sure you will agree that Science is more than a grab-bag of factoids. So with that in mind, please explain why you wear a jacket in cold weather, or a blanket at night? - Like wool, CO2 is a thermal insulator, it has the effect of "cooling" the upper atmosphere (or in the case of a blanket, cooling the bedroom) and warming the lower atmosphere (the bed). Clouds do exactly the same thing because H20 is a greenhouse gas (ie: a thermal insulator), As an Aussie I can tell you from 50 odd years of first hand experience that overcast summer nights are sleepless nights unless you have the air-con on full blast, we even call it a "blanket of cloud".

But here's the real problem with your argument, climate scientists are NOT claiming what you believe they are, in other words the well known "back radiation" canard is a strawman argument. Now ask yourself, who built that strawman for you and how can you avoid that kind of trap in the future?

You may think of me as a troll if you wish but my intention is to educate and promote genuine skepticisim, I "pick on you" from time to time because I believe you're intelligent, genuine, and misinformed.

Not really, the same problem has existed since the first caveman took a dump upstream from his neighbors cave.

Yes, bitcoin is a legit currency.
However money laundering is not a legit activity.

Would you like a patch for your missing eye?

It's not really "re-entry", 61 miles is at the "edge of space" rather than in space. In fact the original spacesuits for the Mercury project were tested by some guy in a helium balloon floating at a similar height. There was no way to land the balloon so he made a planned parachute jump while still wearing the suit. Even though he had to free fall for over 90% of the drop his velocity peaked around the speed of sound, which is pretty fast for a parachuting but still way to slow to burn up. The only thing novel about this project are the jet packs, but they've been promising those for a long time.

Windows has it's own stable of scripting languages pre-installed, but I would love to see it include python. It's perfect for scripting automated builds and other cross platform tasks (after you get the versioning issues sorted ;). Also I get a kick from telling people I have been "playing with my python all day".

I left HS in 1976, calculators were banned at most schools but it wasn't much of a problem because they were very expensive. My dad was an engineer and his company bought him a HP21C calculator for work. To use it I had to learn RPN from the manual. Dad recently found it in the back of a cupboard, he cleaned out the mess the corroded battery had made, got it working again, and gave it to me for Christmas, great conversation piece.

My first "real" computer with a true programming language was a second hand Apple IIe in the 80's, I learned Apple basic from manuals, the library, and magazines (Byte magazine and others published lots of example source code in those days). I think the internet has taken much of the leg work out self teaching all sorts of subjects, information has never been so easy to obtain.

My initial motivation for buying the Apple was that I had read about Conway' game of life in and old SciAm magazine at the library and was fascinated by it, spending hours and hours "playing" by hand on graph paper, it took me a week to figure out how to get the computer to do it. The guy I bought it from was floored when I showed him what I had done with it in the first week. A few years later he was amongst a handful of workmates at the factory who encouraged me into going to uni and taking up programing professionally. I swapped the factory job for a more flexible (and less profitable) taxi driving job and graduated in 1991, with 20/20 hindsight it's one of the best decisions I ever made. However the fact that I graduated at the perfect time to take advantage of the great IT gold rush of the 90's, was pure luck.

I think the hardest problem for most people (especially 20-somethings) is figuring out what they want to do for a living, I was in the same boat until I fully realized I could turn my strange hobby into an interesting and profitable career, being treated like a minor celebrity during the boom times of the 90's was an unexpected bonus.

They are NOT "religious wackos".

They are powerful gangsters, with a militarized party-apparatus, who use the cultural cues for religious piety to validate their rule.

These are the same people that perfected the rules of chess. They managed to "sacrifice a bishop" in the 19th century and avoided becoming a part of the British empire.

Cannier that you think. Including playing religion as a card.

While listening to Michelle Bachman coo sweet nothings...

FB is viewed by many people as some kind of privately owned global public utility, it's a naive but not unreasonable POV. It's no secret this "new kind of service" is forcing governments to re-interpret and re-write laws.

You eat propaganda for breakfast, do not speak Farsi, and accept the fulminations of biased intermediaries without evidence or examination.

You are unworthy to engage in argument.

Genocidal Iranian regime.

Genocidal?

Hyperbole becomes you. Evidence?