Here is a URL that covers some of the stuff by Sallie I was refering to. Lower in the body is details about the lack of trophosphere warming being indicative of no man-made warming effects from CO2.
http://www.techcentralstation.com/062002B.html
There is a link to all of Baliunas's articles at the bottom of this one.
For reference, here is her bio from TCS. Pretty damned impressive.
From TCS:
Sallie Baliunas
Sallie Baliunas, Ph.D. served as part Deputy Director of Mount Wilson Observatory and as Senior Scientist at the George C. Marshall Institute in Washington, DC, and chairs the Institute's Science Advisory Board and is past contributing editor to the World Climate Report. Her awards include the Newton-Lacy-Pierce Prize of the American Astronomical Society, the Petr Beckmann Award for Scientific Freedom and the Bok Prize from Harvard University.
She has written over 200 scientific research articles. In 1991 Discover magazine profiled her as one of America's outstanding women scientists. She was technical consultant for a science-fiction television series, "Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict," airing 1997 - 2001. She received her M.A. (1975) and Ph.D. (1980) degrees in Astrophysics from Harvard University.
Her research interests include solar variability and other factors in climate change, magnetohydrodynamics of the sun and sunlike stars, exoplanets and the use of laser electro-optics for the correction of turbulence due to the earth's atmosphere in astronomical images.
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There is an intereting article, with some technical stuff way way over my head, that comes to some interesting conclusions. The comments that only the bad news seems to get noticed by the scientific press is much like what is going on with the press in Iraq. URL http://www.techcentralstation.com/070903C.html
I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts after you read some of her stuff. Feel free to contact me by FreepMail if you wish.
I'll get back to you after having read some of the suggestions you mentioned.
P.S. I probably would never have used that website if it hadn't been associated with the likes of James Glassman. I used to love the 'TechnoPolitics' show he hosted on PBS. I even used his Washington Post column for a high school paper I wrote about the '96 presidential election.