Instead, we have a call to bow to authority based on nothing more than their claim to authority and an attempt at ridicule against the man.

I would be more willing to listen to their rebuttal if there had actually been a rebuttal included.

Good for you. Far better to accept at face value the op-ed quackings of an aged naysaying contrarian who doesn't even work in the field, and might possibly be in the pocket of big oil or other industries rather than the consensus opinion of literally tens of thousands of other scientists.

Claim to authority? The only authority in evidence is the consensus of the vast majority of scientists working in the field.

As to rebuttals, they abound. Here's just one link.

http://www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php


Ich geh' in Flammen auf....