"...form my own opinion without someone else's spin."

If you are having an ongoing debate, however, it is useful to know what the other guy's opinion is.

and... *sigh*

"...the IPCC's world renowned, universally agreed to, absolutely unquestionable, Nobel prize winning, no longer open to debate, bulletproof report."

I don't detect a wee bit of sarcasm there, do I? Who suggested that ANY report has ANY such status? The question is not whether you can find 'some' discrepancies , or whether some spokesman has a bad attitude (even if his agency is on the right track). The question is whether the overall situation being touted IS real!
The IPCC is not the only group saying that the problem is real, and the evidence that there is a problem does not depend on one graph or one over-zealous spokeman's say-so.
I do not have the time to personally evaluate every compilation of data and the computer software programs that produce it...but there are those who do, and it is STILL the case that most of the capable scientists who do the research and ARE capable of sorting the wheat from the chaff' in the complex data and reports OF the data, say that there is, indeed, a problem.

Wolfgang's remark is relevant about one researcher thinking that... "...IPCC is controlled by scientists who step out of their roles as advisers and become politicians themselves overselling basically sound data.