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"All these "these people disagree" counters to AGW are arguements of authority. Sure they are not the accepted authorities, but that makes them even weaker arguements not better."

If one is making arguments based on authority, one should expect people to counter by offering other authorities as an argument.

If you argue your opposition is motivated by "money", one should expect this to countered by evidence that "your side" is motivated by money.

Now, if you want to leave out authority and assigning bad motives as the basis of your argument, and argue instead based upon science. THEN you can complain about others using authority as a basis of their argument.

But as I recall, it seems that you are not favor of *first* establishing what is true scientifically because we are in danger and we can't afford the time this would take.
You think it's prudent to do things which would cost trillion of dollars to be safe [and btw "murder" millions of people].

And the only possible danger is about the same as to be overrun by slugs who are threatening us [slugs which are about 100 miles away].
Yes, govt moves slow and also can't do anything right- but this no reason to have govt solve this imagined "slug quickly assaulting us problem".

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