The Life and Death of a Climate Hoax

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The “death of manmade global warming theory” lasted 70 minutes, showing the amazing power of the Web to amplify, and then dismantle, fictions at light speed.

On Nov. 7, news flashed around conservative and climate-skeptic e-mail chains, some Web sites and a couple of talk-radio programs that an important new scientific paper proved that undersea bacteria, not people, were responsible for most of the recent buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/20...a-climate-hoax