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Anton,
“Argument from “authority” is one of foremost logical fallacies”….
The fallacy arises when it is claimed or implied that the authority is infallible in principle and thus should be exempted from criticism. When such an argument comes from an individual source, yes it is a fallacy. If I were to say global warming is real because Jim Hansen said it is, then I’d be guilty of this fallacy. No one is exempting any of these authorities from criticism. But taken as a whole, representing such a broad consensus on this particular subject, the conclusion to any rational person is that AGW is real. And you would NOT be committing the “authority” fallacy. I guess you’d now retort that they are all a “cabal” or something, right?