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 It’s based on information that is more out of date than a Tim Patterson solar forcing graph, and is manipulated to specifically misrepresent both the scale and the recent climate curve.

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