Hundreds of musicians have demonstrated that there is much stronger consensus about global warming among rock musicians than among scientists...(via Amy Ridenour)
Hundreds of musicians have demonstrated that there is much stronger consensus about global warming among rock musicians than among scientists...(via Amy Ridenour)
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Your July 18, 2007 QOTD suffers from the logical fallacy of equivocation, which undermines serious dialogue on the subject of global warming. (background at http://www.fallacyfiles.org/equivoqu.html or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivocation).
The term "consensus" has two meanings in the quote. With respect to the musicians, the term refers to their "concern about global warming as an issue that should be considered and, if necessary, addressed." With respect to the scientists, the term refers to their consensus (or lack thereof) about the "extent and impact of global warming." Although the scientific community may have its complete skeptics, I doubt a significant percentage of experts in the field believe global warming is NOT an issue of concern or does NOT warrant further evaluation.
Furthermore, ridiculing the concern because it is expressed by “musicians” also suffers from being improperly ad hominem (background http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/ad-hominem.html). Hundreds of musicians, and hundreds of thousands of environmentalists, and perhaps even hundreds of millions of people world-wide (including U.S. voters) ARE concerned.
-Cogito
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