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thanindependent).Wealsofoundthatitminedforhockeystickshapesandoverstatedtheir
dominance in the underlying data patterns, and that it understated the uncertainties of the
resulting climate reconstruction (or equivalently, exaggerated the significance).
Figure 1: Temperature chart as it appeared in the 1990 IPCC report
Source: C. K. Folland, R. T. Karl, K. YA. Vinnikov, “Observed Climate Variations and Change,” Climate Change: The
IPCC Scientific Assessment, ed. J. T. Houghton, G. J. Jenkins and J. J. Ephraums (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2010), 202, accessed July 15, 2014,
http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/far/wg_I/ipcc_far_wg_I_chapter_07.pdf
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7.1, page 202.
