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ZenGum · 11-21-2009, 04:37 PM

Most of what has been (allegedly) exposed by these hackers constitutes an argument ad hominem. It doesn't really affect the argument.

There are plenty of opportunities for such attacks in the climate debate. Al Gore's movie is emotional, rhetorical, and just too damn long. Durkin's movie (The Great Global Warming Swindle) is filled with bad science, fake graphs, non-experts, and the Single-Cause fallacy (just count how many times someone says "The sun drives climate").

Stick to the evidence and reasoned argument based on it.

11-21-2009, 04:37 PM	#11
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	Most of what has been (allegedly) exposed by these hackers constitutes an argument ad hominem. It doesn't really affect the argument. There are plenty of opportunities for such attacks in the climate debate. Al Gore's movie is emotional, rhetorical, and just too damn long. Durkin's movie (The Great Global Warming Swindle) is filled with bad science, fake graphs, non-experts, and the Single-Cause fallacy (just count how many times someone says "The sun drives climate"). Stick to the evidence and reasoned argument based on it. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.