Co. Patrick Lang, who blogs over at Sic Semper Tyrannis, has done a lot of work on the Middle East and Islam, over many years. An online video captures a wide-ranging lecture on Islam at St. Mary's University in March, 2007.
It explains some of the links between the religion's history, structure, and the current behavior of its adherents, in a 1 1/2 hour presentation that's generally worth your time.
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The link doesn't work for me. Here's another.
Fixed...thanks. - A.L.
I was hoping to give some substantial help on this, but have just picked up a consulting gig that will be using the relevant brain cells for a while. You might want to check out these guys who have retrieved the code for one of the better known models and are trying to bring it up.
Can you point to the most relevant chapter(s) in IPCC for someone who wants an overview of the modeling (as versus data gathering) efforts? I'm seeing too much about 'forcings' (inputs) and not enough about evidence-based model structure.