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Appeal to authority fallacy occurs when someone asserts a claim solely based on the authority or expertise of an individual or group, without considering the evidence supporting the claim. However, in the case of climate change, the scientific consensus is derived from a robust body of evidence and research conducted by thousands of scientists worldwide

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That said, the level of proof is mostly conjecture, contrast and comparison. There are a lot of other mitigating factors at play when we're talking about a solar system. It's not significantly different than what was pushed as the heart-health cholesterol hypothesis as fact for half a century, and was in fact wrong, dramatically wrong.

The level of alarmism doesn't help. According to 2001, Florida should be underwater right now. And that is as we, as a global population haven't dramatically changed much of anything. I'll believe the alarmism, when treaty proposals don't draft out massive exclusions for India, China and African nations.

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