In December, some crank reporters in Britain got ahold of hacked emails from the U. of East Anglia, where a Climate Research Unit is.  They took some email snippets out of context and BAMF, the corporations and anti-regulation types had themselves a smoking-gun. Or that's how they spun it anyway.  They conveniently ignored the prosaic explanations, as such types usually do.  Hannity, Limbaugh, Savage, Beck and the other flat-earthers did exactly as you might have guessed. They served their corporate masters' interests in preventing regulation.

Even the usually almost-politically-centrist Coast To Coast AM has run with it, spewing the most outrageous fiction, and having political partisans on as "independent experts". For example corporate operative Tim Ball, associated with Exxon/Mobil and Heartland Institute, was on as a guest "climatologist". They also had weathermen like John Coleman talking about a fictitious list of 3,200 scientists who say AGW is bunk.  And there's the usual lie that "In the 1970's scientists said there was global cooling".

The most outrageous claim (usually heard on Coast To Coast AM) is that "the other planets are warming too". This must-see video puts that argument to bed. Seriously, you must see this.

There has been an explosion in "facts" bandied about since then, by right-wingers once again demonstrating no understanding of science. Nor have they actually read any of the interviews they cite. And it's clear they haven't actually read the full emails, explanations and third-party analysis of the emails from people who understand the science.

Luckily, a science-blogger has helped develop an iPhone app that tracks Anthropogenic Warming Denialist claims. It provides information debunking such claims, and even lets you report new conspiracy theories "contradictory evidence" to the authors so answers can be researched. John Cook is the man behind the FREE app, and the SkepticalScience.com web site. You'll want to bookmark that page.