Fallacious argumentthedr9wningmanMay 4 2012, 17:19:12 UTC
Non Sequitur: something that just does not follow. For example, "Tens of thousands of Americans have seen lights in the night sky which they could not identify. The existence of life on other planets is fast becoming certainty !" In this case "The unabomber 'believes' in global warming" (Global warming is not a belief system; belief is based on a lack of evidence and faith: global warming is based on a rational analysis of data. Whether it is a correct analysis is up for debate (although, personally, I think that's already been played out through peer review and about 30 years of checking and re-checking). Stating it is a belief, though, is patently erroneous.)
Argument By Laziness (Argument By Uninformed Opinion
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I heard about a study on NPR yesterday that showed that a majority of EVERYONE in the US wants the government to do something about global warming. That includes Republicans. The majority of Americans now get that global warming is contributing to extreme weather events. There are too many of those events to ignore.
The analyst running the study explained that the conservatives want government regulation now, even though they detest government regulation. Because they forsee that if this thing is left unchecked now, government involvement in disaster relief and remediation in the future will cost orders of magnitude more.
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Not getting the message of the billboard here.
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something that just does not follow. For example, "Tens of thousands of Americans have seen lights in the night sky which they could not identify. The existence of life on other planets is fast becoming certainty !"
In this case "The unabomber 'believes' in global warming" (Global warming is not a belief system; belief is based on a lack of evidence and faith: global warming is based on a rational analysis of data. Whether it is a correct analysis is up for debate (although, personally, I think that's already been played out through peer review and about 30 years of checking and re-checking). Stating it is a belief, though, is patently erroneous.)
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Hitler celebrated Christmas. Do you? (He probably liked chocolate, too.)
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The analyst running the study explained that the conservatives want government regulation now, even though they detest government regulation. Because they forsee that if this thing is left unchecked now, government involvement in disaster relief and remediation in the future will cost orders of magnitude more.
Sorry, I couldn't find a link to it, but here's another link about Americans connecting the dots:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/18/science/earth/americans-link-global-warming-to-extreme-weather-poll-says.html
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