Has become a story of citizen journalism gone awry, for the blogosphere is littered with amateur writers who have been duped into fighting against global warming by slick websites with official - sounding names like the Science and Public Policy Institute and the Friends of Science.
But with social media, blogs, citizenjournalism, and ever greater amounts of news on a diverse and expanding range of sites, information is shared across borders and goes around censors with greater ease than ever before.