Hi genericmicrobe - not sure if you're under the impression that I wrote the paper in question (I didn't) or if you're saying that you don't understand the paper or the excerpts that I copied from the paper, but you understand how I've explained it.
If the latter, thanks for the compliment (I think).
I've a science degree (with honours) from Melbourne uni, and worked a lot of my life with scientists but my career was not as a scientific researcher in a lab setting (have done science communication and science policy and planning etc).
If you want to get interpretations from an active scientific researcher, there are some here on HC AFAIK. (I suspect most of them would find this S&M board pretty uninteresting though. The forum is clogged up with too many anti-science posts.)
You'd probably be better to go to a science blog. There are plenty of them on scienceblogs.com. For climate science from active climate scientists - try realclimate.org.
