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You are quite free to go and read the original research if you want to. There is no shortage of it. The purpose of the IPCC is to provide a summary of the current state of science regarding climate change and provide recommendations to policy makers. It's summaries are accurate and...

Err .... no it doesn't. Read what it actually says before inserting foot in mouth. What it does say is that the % of CO2 emitted by human activity that remains in the atmosphere has remained almost constant with possibly a small uptrend. This in no way implies that CO2 emissions due to human...

Wrong. Severe bush fires occur in dry AND hot conditions and they are made very very dangerous by high winds. Catastrophic and extreme (official designations) fire conditions in Australia are ALWAYS accompanied by high temperatures. This is known to every single person living in rural Australia...

That's called weather. What is important is whether the climate is warming. 2009 will certainly be amongst the 10 hottest years and possibly as high as the second hottest. But if you want to talk about weather, you could have a look at Australia which has had the hottest winter/spring on...

Why don't you exercise some of your "open mindedness" which as you keep telling us you possess in vastly greater quantities than mere mortals, go and read the latest IPCC report and come back with a reasoned argument showing the world it's scientific flaws? You see, the climate doesn't care...

I know. You need to use something else. Maybe RadarScreen or some other real time scanner.

Why would you want to? If you want to simultaneously study 1000 instruments you want to use something that doesn't (stupidly) insist that you open a chart for each one.

15 Most Heinous Climate Villains: http://www.buffalobeast.com/?p=1237

There have been a number of surveys done that attempt to quantify the degree of consensus in scientific opinion. They all find the same thing - the science overwhelmingly backs the AGW proposition. Here is commentary on one of those surveys which finds that 97% of expert climate scientists agree...

If reading the abstract is too hard, an unbiased commentary can be found here: http://www.skepticalscience.com/Is-the-airborne-fraction-of-anthropogenic-CO2-emissions-increasing.html

Indeed so. You hit the nail right on the head. "The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which "people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it".[1] The unskilled therefore suffer from...

You should be more interested in latency than speed. And yes, distance does affect latency. You can get a measure of latency by doing a "ping" to your broker. Then add some more latency for broker to exchange, processing time to check that you are within margin limits etc etc.

Both max speed and reliability of DSL depend on your distance to the DSLAM in the exchange. Here in Aus I have 20Mbps ADSL2+ and it is very reliable, but I am fairly close to the exchange. If you are having to reset your DSL modem, it is a good sign that you have a poor signal to noise...

What do you define as "very short term"?

If your software can open multiple concurrent TCP connections (eg by multithreading), it can be quite quick. My code manages to get > 5K stocks in a few minutes. So far Yahoo hasn't objected to this for historical data download. Don't try too many connections on their fundamentals pages, though...

No, you introduced cosmic rays as the cause of the brightening of the sun => Unfortunately it ain't so, and it doesn't matter how many scientific terms you randomly throw together in a meaningless jumble, it still isn't so.

It's meaningless rubbish. Just multiple scientific terms thrown together randomly.

I'm using Yahoo for daily and DTN IQFeed for intraday streaming and historical. I could just as well use IQFeed for daily but haven't got round to it yet. IQFeed is good and reliable. It also works on Linix under wine (100% reliable and 64 bit no problem)The API is easy, though perhaps not...

Maybe http://quantlib.org/index.shtml Err.... scratch that, I missed your comment.

Cosmic rays and surface temperatures: More here: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/10/taking-cosmic-rays-for-a-spin/