Jimmy, I actually didn’t hear Paul Douglas expressing opinions as much as making astute observations.

Jimmy, I am as you say an Anthropologist. I have studied the interaction between climate change, habitat change, human diet and forager extraction strategies, and human evolution. I worked with sea level issues in New England, habitat change in Central and Souther Africa, and served on the faculty of the UMN Lakes Research Center, the primary fresh water paleoclimate analysis facility in the US, possibly in the world, for about five years. My students have worked on climate change in the Holocene, primarily.

Dr. Pielke Jr. is an economist. Mr. Watts is a meteorologist. I’m a Paleoanthropologist. I’m not an amateur in this area and the realities of climate change have nothing to do with politics. Politics has a lot to say about science and climate change, yes, but the realities of the Earth’s atmosphere don’t even know about politics.

I hope that answers your question, Jimmy. Don’t feel bad about being an amateur, though. Anyone can study this issue and enjoy learning about it.