Faked Climate Graph Used in German Schools

onJun 11, 2007 @ 07:44 PDT

It’s frightening how easy it is to present a computer-assisted lie, especially if you have no conscience about faking things like climate reconstruction graphs. It’s also frightening that such a piece of fakery can find its way into the school system of a G8 country.

This graph was created by a German high school teacher named E.G. Beck. It’s based on information that is more out of date than a Tim Patterson solar forcing graph, and is manipulated to specifically misrepresent both the scale and the recent climate curve.

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By Richard Littlemore

uk/Revealed: Reform’s £24 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests

ByAdam Barnett and Sam Bright

onApr 30, 2026 @ 01:27 PDT

Nigel Farage’s anti-climate party has received two thirds of its income from oil investors.

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uk/'Mad Men Fuelling the Madness': Meet the Advertising CEOs Boosting Big Oil

ByTJ Jordan

onApr 29, 2026 @ 23:05 PDT

You might not have heard of them, but a new analysis shows these ad execs have overseen $1.5 billion worth of fossil fuel ads in the U.S. since the Paris Agreement.