Groupthink demonstrated?: I don't think blogger Megan McArdle can explain in her own words why she still believes in the global warming hoax; she pretty much admits that she believes because she thinks some other people believe

Leaked Docs From Heartland Institute Cause a Stir—but Is One a Fake? - Megan McArdle - National - The Atlantic

I should also probably note that I disagree pretty strenuously with Heartland's position on global warming.  I not only believe that anthropogenic global warming is happening, but also support stiff carbon or source fuels taxes in order to combat it.  While I've expressed some dismay at the behavior revealed in the leaked Climategate memos, they haven't changed my mind about the reality, or the danger, of global warming.  I'm not defending Heartland's stance on climate science; I'm mostly interested in this because I have a longstanding fascination with fake quotes and documents

AFF Doublethink Online » I Want to Believe?

[2008]:  Indeed, since Bailey’s conversion, others on the conservative/libertarian axis have come forward with similar conclusions.
“Ron changing his mind on global warming cemented my own transition to an AGW (i.e., man-made climate change) believer,” says Atlantic blogger Megan McArdle.

Climate Science Shouldn't Be Religion for Left or Right - Megan McArdle - Politics - The Atlantic

[2011]:  I am quite convinced that the planet is warming, and fairly convinced that human beings play a role in this. (When you've got Reason's Ron Bailey, Cato's Patrick Michaels, and Jonathan Adler, you've convinced me).

Jonathan H. Adler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jonathan H. Adler (born November 3, 1969), is an American legal commentator and law professor at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law.

Quote by Mark Twain

“In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.”