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      • Temperature Reconstructions of the Past
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Extracts from Ofcom Complaint, by Category

Falsification/Manipulation

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1. Falsification/Manipulation of Graphs 1
  Comment 37: ‘Medieval Warm Period’ 1
    Graph from the film: Temp 1000 Years 1
    Global Warming Art: Reconstructed Temperature Graph 2
  Comment 39: Holocene Maximum 3
    Graph from the film: Temp 10,000 Years 3
  Comment 42: 20th Century Cooling 4
    Graph from the film: World Temp 120 Years 4
    Graph from the film: World Temp 110 Years 5
    NASA graph of Global Land Ocean Index 6
    Three graphs comparison 6
  Comment 59: 20th century Sunspot Activity 7
    Graph from film: Temp and Solar Activity 100 Years 7
    Figure 1 from Damon and Laut 2004 8
  Comment 60: Sunspot activity since 1540 9
    Two graph comparison 10
2. Falsification/Manipulation of WHO Figures 12
  Comment 126: WHO figures on respiratory diseases 12
3. Falsification/Manipulation of Film Footage 13
  Comment 104: Confusing the seasons with year on year trends 13
4. Falsification/Manipulation by Quoting Selectively 14
  Comment 112: Misquoting of IPCC on malaria 14
  Comment 114: Wall Street Journal allegations 15

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