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1) What date range was picked? That was a choice. Look back to the last Ice Age, and you would see more variation in the data.

2) What colors are picked for the background? We are in white now and going to red? What if the colors showed us in blue, and global warming moving us to white?

It is a total lie to say raw numbers don't lie. Every part about making an infograph lies. X axis. Y axis. Colors. Labels. We could take the same dataset and draw many different conclusions.

(Not that global warming isn't true, but that infographic isn't enough)




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