Climate Fallacies: ‘The’ consensus is a form of the appeal-to-authority fallacy, but it is more so a stacking-the-deck fallacy’
'It works thusly: the IPCC goes out among the credentialed and asks, 'Doest thou agree with me?' If the answer be 'Aye', the person is added to the Nice list; if it be 'Nay', the unfortunate is entered into the Persona Non Grata ledger. The IPCC then reports that there is a consensus among its membership, and that because this consensus is a consensus, its conclusions are beyond question'
