It was a banner year for myth making about climate change. Despite mounting evidence that temperatures are rising, the deniers’ camp spun bigger, better and more believable tall tales than ever before.

And those stories worked like a charm in 2009. Amplified by broadcast bloviators and a compliant mainstream media, advocates for burying our collective head in the sand convinced millions of Americans that climate change isn’t happening, isn’t caused by people, or wouldn’t be such a bad thing anyway.

Here are five of the top 10 tall tales in the 2009 climate change denier’s storybook.

Read the rest of my Media Mayhem column on climate change tall tales at the Mother Nature Network.

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