A graphic that is ricocheting around the liberal blogosphere this week is purported to demonstrate–what else?–how stupid and ignorant Americans are. (Well, non-Democrat Americans presumably.)

The image, which has been breathlessly promoted on blogs from coast to coast, shows that American Internet users search the term “Global Warming Fake” more often than denizens of other countries do. Here is the allegedly damning image, provided originally by Google Zeitgest, which shows relative search volume by country for the term: