From: Dhu on Gate <campbell@neotext.ca>
Newsgroups: alt.global-warming,can.politics,sci.skeptic
Subject: Re: Alan "Rich Kid" Baker, Knows EVERYTHING!
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2025 03:43:59 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
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·âla·âcious fÉ-ËlÄ-shÉs
> Synonyms of fallacious
> 1
> : embodying a fallacy
> a fallacious conclusion
> a fallacious argument
> 2
> : tending to deceive or mislead : delusive
> ⦠false and fallacious hopes â¦â
> 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
Yes.
And time *is* a collective hallucination ;-)
On the other hand, AGW might not be a bad idea.
I grew up listening to a Paleo Botanist maunder
on about climate change, which is REAL. The last
3mil years have been *cooler* and *drier* than normal
for this planet's biology. This was prob'ly caused
by the closure of the Darien, which ceased to provide
a deep-sea connect (and consequent energy xfer)
between Atlantic and Pacific oceans about that time.
Prob'ly also provided the impetus for some African beach
apes to start moving inland along the wadis and billabongs
stealing meat from the hyenas and other scavengers along
the way...
> 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!
One can only hope ;-)
Dhu
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