- An ideological position statement presented in bad faith as though it's rigorous serious scientific discourse that serious scientists might debate, discuss or form opinions on.

- When actually it's self contradicting nonsensical bullshit written to be deliberately almost impossible to understand and is not meant to be coherent to anyone in the sciences much less anyone else.

- When something is stated this obtusely it's immediately taken by the small brained to be demonstrating impressive mental acumen. Sic: if the normie, the IQ 100 white collar citizen, reads this, his brain shuts down and he assumes that the writer knows best.

In other words it communicates nothing, it's meant only to be a snow job, and therefore it fulfills its purpose.

I didn't even have to read the entire post through. I observed how you set up the post, what you concluded, and I simply glanced at the "academic" drivel you copied. It was completely obvious what game they are playing.

Sophistry? More like how virtually everything is decided these days by institutions. Climate change is a more sciencified version of the government stating that your Facebook opinion should get you jail time if a bunch of white people decides that it harms brave brown people of uncertain national origin.

This continual triumphalism of the overt lie is the background noise of our era.

I'm personally more interested in the recent (maybe current) active shooter situation along a major N-S highway (I-75) in London, Kentucky where this evening, a lunatic hiding in the woods along the highway has been shooting at drivers by through the windshield and has injured and/or killed several. In a different year it might have been the missus and me on our way to points south for a short vacation.

Sic: the climate sophistry won't kill me that quickly, but a nut job driven over the edge by today's world may end me quickly. I'm in dread for our very lives, personally. The intellectual masturbation of the establishment is a secondary matter to me.