Bilbo, obviously you are not a very good student because I was not trying to make a logical argument in the first place and this point seems to have sailed past you. One can indulge in a logical fallacy only if one is trying to make a logical argument, correct? Read a book on logic please. I was simply saying that anyone who knows my words on this blog will know that I am not known for making arguments from authority.

No. I’m applying your logic to other situations to which you aren’t personally connected. (Although, you seem to take things about Randi reallllllllllly personal).

In fact, the distinction between skeptics and deniers should be made very clear for a very important reason; otherwise the true deniers will call themselves skeptics and try to get away with it, and we can never allow the charlatans to do that.

Now there’s something we can both agree on!

Yessir, global cooling underway. As proof, the Northwest Passage was open to shipping for the first time since European settlers arrived in North America. Glaciers in Bolivia are disappearing,. A new law of physics: lowering temperatures causes ice to melt. End snark.