re: #13 Targetpractice

You notice it’s the people with degrees that have absolutely no relevance in the debate over climate change who always engage in appeals to authority when declaring that it’s all a “hoax.”

To the American Right, the Appeal to Authority does not have to be related to the field in question — any authority will do. This is, for example, why they had Ted Stevens in a position to utter his infamous “Series of Tubes” speech — he had not one fucking clue about the thing he was put in charge of regulating, but any authority is valid authority if it agrees with the views of the Right.

As has been demonstrated time and time again, they’re too stupid to think for themselves, so their entire ideology is predicated around having some authority figures to do all the thinking for them.