In the past couple of weeks, right wing media and blogs have been gleefully trumpeting the latest absurd climate change denial claim — that the Sun is entering a period of low activity, and this will trigger a “mini-ice age.” I haven’t checked all of them, but every right wing blog I did check jumped all over this story, and grandly proclaimed that there’s no need to worry about climate change any more.

Of course, the entire premise was made up out of nothing. But that’s true of almost every climate change denial claim that goes viral in the deranged right wing echo chamber; these people are completely unmoored from reality.