Climatologist Dr. John Christy spanks down Holdren

Holdren has created a GSM (Global Skeptic Model) that accommodates his view of the “observations” of some skeptic’s behavior and gives him a sort of comfort level to explain what he thinks he sees in a way that keeps his beliefs intact. I suppose we all have an innate drive to try and make sense of what we observe in a way that is consistent with our beliefs.

As with any model, it is over simplified, not able to account for all situations and is inconsistent with predictions (i.e. several folks have apparently announced becoming skeptical having been non-skeptics in the past)....

(Via Marc Morano)