re: #488 scion9

I was a skeptic, but am now agnostic on the issue. My scientific background is very basic. Is there one source/book above others that you would recommend to laymen on the subject?

Here are some great links…

For basics, this page from NOAA is quite good for raw data.
ncdc.noaa.gov

This is the homepage of the Princeton Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab. If you poke around, you will find out everything you could possibly want to know about how that data is modeled to make prediction.
gfdl.noaa.gov

This is from Columbia University, IRI/LDEO Climate Data Library
ingrid.ldeo.columbia.edu