Independent: The idea that climate change is a vast global conspiracy -- involving everyone from Nasa and the British Met Office to Chinese government scientists and has persisted in the United States to an alarming degree.
So much so that more than 180 members of Congress are believed to be climate deniers, including Senator Jim Inhofe, who once tossed a snowball to the presiding officer in February, saying: You know what this is? Its a snowball, from outside here. So its very, very cold out. Very unseasonable....