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   From: drr@in.valid   
      
   On Sun, 7 Dec 2025 14:03:49 -0500   
   JTEM  wrote:   
      
   > On 12/7/25 12:43 PM, Ken wrote:   
   >    
   > > With such a narrow focus, how can they possibly have any expertise   
   > > on climate?  They would be more knowledgeable if they forgot what   
   > > they've allegedly learned and went back to get liberal arts   
   > > degrees, like poets, businessmen, lawyers or politicians.   We   
   > > should never trust doctors or specialists for the same reason.   
   > > Anyone who specializes in anything has no credibility.     
   >    
   > It's called an "Appeal to Authority," and it's a fallacious argument.   
   >    
   > fal·​la·​cious fə-ˈlā-shəs   
   > Synonyms of fallacious   
   > 1   
   > : embodying a fallacy   
   > a fallacious conclusion   
   > a fallacious argument   
   > 2   
   > : tending to deceive or mislead : delusive   
   > … false and fallacious hopes …—   
   > Conyers Middleton   
   >    
   > Your "Position" would not be acceptable on a high school debating   
   > team, not actually constituting any real "Argument."   
   >    
   > What happens is that stupid and/or dogmatic people have an emotional   
   > need to support/defend a position, but lack the intellect to   
   > challenge ideas presented, deconstruct arguments and verify claims   
   > of fact. So they don't bother. Instead, they engage in a "Fallacious"   
   > argument.   
   >    
   > Gwobull Warbling is a hoax. And just one fact alone is enough for   
   > the emotionally stable to see this fact:  This make pretend "Climate   
   > Science" only ever compares the Holocene to itself, and even then it   
   > only ever compares to closely related points within the post   
   > industrial era to themselves.   
   >    
   > Now you don't know what I just said, much less why that excludes   
   > AGW "Science" from actually being science, but that's what makes you   
   > so funny.   
   >    
   > You're hilarious!   
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