Analysis: ‘Perhaps the most ridiculous graph in the IPCC AR5 SPM is this one showing “decadal mean” temperature’
'Why is the graph so bad? It’s hard to see why it is necessary to point this out. Firstly, it takes a graph with about 160 data points on it, and reduces this to just 16, effectively throwing away most of the data...he introduction of this graph into AR5, with no such graph in the previous reports, leaves the IPCC open to accusations of trying to “hide the decline” in warming this decade, though of course the levelling off is clear in the graph above, so the graph seems quite pointless.'
