Wiggles

I started working on a post about feedbacks, an interesting and important topic recently raised in reader comments. But I’ve been sidetracked by the revival of one of the favorite false claims of denialists, one of those pieces of garbage that never dies. Occasionally I look at the stats provided by wordpress, and I noticed I was getting a lot of hits from the science blog Deltoid. That’s because Deltoid commented on an open letter in the National Post signed by a collection of scientists which includes many, if not most, of the usual list of denialists. The open letter has some rather outrageous claims; possibly the most egregious (and most easily proved false) is this: