Ottawa Citizen: When columnist Dan Gardner descries climate deniers as "zealous, dogmatic, self-righteous, and absolutely unyielding" many deniers are certainly that. Further to seizing on the slightest pretext to condemn scientific evidence, some have taken to declaring climate change a gigantic hoax perpetrated by governments and their meteorological research departments. Thinking about that for a moment, I have to ask why would governments even want to contemplate a hoax over climate …