I really have no idea where you have been Acorn - although we do see you around and about and presume you have kept up with the chatter on this topic which appears to be very close to your heart!!
OK there are literally scores of threads on HC and I have provided many references and contributed to discussions on many of them.
I refuse to do your research for you and suggest strongly that you start with HC threads. My view is that you will find the answers there.
I will give you a heads up. Most of our difficulties with this topic I lay firmly at the feet of the IPCC, IMO the discredited IPCC! Do some research on the IPCC, their structure, the head of the IPCC for almost a decade and a half (Rajendra Pachauri), check some of their key forecasts and how they got them so wrong especially given that they had "thousands" of scientists on their books with "peer-reviewed" papers (my six year old dog spewed on some of them papers to show his disgust), etc etc etc.
