Bad Moon Rising
When conversing with one of the faithful in human-generated climate change, and they discover you’re not a member of their gang, they say incredulously, “How could you not?” So you ask, “Tell me, why are you a believer?” Typically, they express the “97% of scientists” response.
I ask “Is this result an Ad Verecundiam stance?” The reply is then “Sorry I don’t speak French”.
I say it’s actually from the shortened Latin expression “argumentum ad verecundiam” and translates to “argument from authority” and you have no evidence other than what others have told you – especially the boisterous, leftist media.
AI asserts that “argument from authority” is a “logical fallacy that occurs when someone relies on the opinion or testimony of an authority figure to support a claim, without providing sufficient evidence or logical reasoning to back it up”.
The 97% is also a fallacy as I explain in my article “The 97% Consensus” where, in fact, an Australian John Cook then a Climate Communications Fellow, Global Change Institute, Queensland University, reviewed thousand-plus climate papers, and discovered “only 2% of the papers said exactly that, although never divulging the amount of warming, while the vast majority of the papers researched never stated that there was manmade global warming at all, but Cook “felt” or perhaps “fantasized” it was implied”.
Yet, the claim became universal and absolute proof among the progressive opportunists of the world, including scientists with the onomatopoeic “ca-ching” in their eyes.
A metaphorical situation to this would be the CIA triangle/square experiment with 18 people. Only one of the 18 was a member of the general public while the other 17 were, unbeknownst to the single public member, actual CIA agents, or employees. Each person was shown a picture of a triangle and then asked to advise what they saw. Each CIA agent was told, in advance to say square - which they did. When it came to the non-agent, who was asked last, he knew it was a triangle, but nonetheless said square.
The indoctrinated, climate change-controlled youth eventually started to gather, but not around a CO2-generating fire pit, singing the 1969 Creedence Clearwater Revival hit “Bad Moon Rising”, thoughtfully deliberating on the lyrics - for they have been struck with “argumentum ad metum” translated from the Latin as the “appeal to fear”:
[Verse 1]
I see the bad moon arising, I see trouble on the way
I see earthquakes and lightnin', I see bad times today
[Verse 2]
I hear hurricanes a-blowing, I know the end is coming soon
I fear rivers overflowing, I hear the voice of rage and ruin
[Verse 3]
Hope you got your things together, hope you are quite prepared to die
Looks like we're in for nasty weather, one eye is taken for an eye
And, finally with the impending certainty of death if more solar panels and windmills are not produced:
[Chorus]
Don't go around tonight
Well, it's bound to take your life
There's a bad moon on the rise
When you bring up the “argument from authority” fallacy to a climate change enthusiast you can be assured to get an “ad hominem attack” in return.