If I told you I had an IQ of 180 and six Ph.Ds in biochemistry, meteorology, chemistry, particle physics, volcanology, and skateboarding, would that make what I say about global warming be any more accurate? (I think I read once that the argument from authority is always fallacious.)
I think I have a good intellect and a reasonable grasp of science. I know enough about science to understand scientific issues, but I bail on advanced mathematics. Unlike Gore, my verbal SAT score was about 100 points higher than my math.
And you can probably hold you own in a good game of poker, but that doesn't make you the arbiter of truth or the search for it.
What we're talking about here is wholesale change in the lifestyle and behaviour of the entire advanced world because some ninnies believe that a few million scrawny little lifeforms can do what 5 billion years of natural disasters have failed to do, namely, the destruction of our host planet - according to the crowd you prefer to run with, our welcome is over and the planet now needs to shrug off its peskiest parasites before it careers into the sun.