Nation: ncreasingly, it has become an article of faith among political leaders on the right that anthropogenic climate change is a hoax perpetrated on gullible Americans. To conservatives like Republican Senator Jim Inhofe, greedy scientists are spreading a phony tale of impending climatic disaster as part of some socialist takeover plot, all of it propelled along by a complicit liberal media. There are various reasons why this conspiracy theory is patently false; most notable among them is the overwhelming...