 The "dismissive ad hom" lies implicit in the term "Slayer", which is meant to connote "nutcase", "crackpot" and/or "anti-scientific" ideas. It is a commonly used warmist rhetorical tool to dismiss any argument against one's own, employed in the cases when one doesn't want to (or can't) go through the process of piecing together an actual, proper counterargument. You do not actually address the argument itself, what is really being said. You just dismiss it offhand. You know this, Scott. And still you used the term to define my "approach". Funny how you know what I know. That said, I see you've not bothered to quote where I called out your hypocrisy. "Warmist", "troll tactic", "warped version of reality"