The evidence linking global warming to human activity-such as burning fossil fuels-is weak. Therefore, human activity does not cause global warming.
Which of the following informal fallacies does the argument commit?
• Personal attack (ad hominem)
• Attacking the motive
• Look who's talking (tu quoque)
• Two wrongs make a right
• Appeal to force (ad baculum)
• Appeal to pity (ad misericordium)
• Bandwagon argument (ad populum)
• Straw man
• Red herring
• Equivocation (semantic fallacy)
• Begging the question (petitio principii)
• Inappropriate appeal to authority
• Appeal to ignorance
• False dichotomy
• Loaded question
• Questionable cause
• Slippery slope
• Hasty generalization
• Weak analogy
• Inconsistency