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| However, this does not mean that global warming would not have an impact on sea levels: in addition to the floating icebergs, there are also enormous amounts of inland [[wp>Ice sheet|ice sheets]]. Those on [[wp>Greenland ice sheet|Greenland]] and [[wp>Antarctic ice sheet|Antarctica]] are only the two most important and largest. | However, this does not mean that global warming would not have an impact on sea levels: in addition to the floating icebergs, there are also enormous amounts of inland [[wp>Ice sheet|ice sheets]]. Those on [[wp>Greenland ice sheet|Greenland]] and [[wp>Antarctic ice sheet|Antarctica]] are only the two most important and largest. |
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| This form of argumentation has aspects of a [[rhetoric:defeasible_arguments:strawman:index|straw man argument]], as it distracts from the actual argument in order to try to refute a much weaker one. If one would even deliberately single out somebody who represents this weak position in order to present this as "typical" for the counter side, this would even count as a form of [[rhetorics:red_herrings:ad_hominem:guilt_by_association:nutpicking|nutpicking]]. | This form of argumentation has aspects of a [[rhetoric:defeasible_arguments:strawman:index|straw man argument]], as it distracts from the actual argument in order to try to refute a much weaker one. If one would even deliberately single out somebody who represents this weak position in order to present this as "typical" for the counter side, this would even count as a form of [[relevance:ad_hominem:nutpicking|nutpicking]]. |
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