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CO2 Coalition 's " Fact #17 " and " Fact #26 " are parts 2 and 3 of an apparent rebuttal of the fact that "current warming" is unusual and "unprecedented" since the beginning of the Holocene. Part 1 (Fact 16) was an attempt to deal with Holocene temperatures. Parts 2 and 3 attempt do deal with temperatures over the last 2000 years, whether using Moberg 2005 (Fact 17)[1] or Loehle 2008 (Fact 26)[2]. I'm including both together here because both of these "facts" have the same fatal flaw - both eliminated "current warming" from their graphs. It should seem pretty obvious to most that you can't show that current warming is neither unusual nor unprecedented over the last 2000 years if you first cut out current warming from consideration. Here's how CO2 Coalition  "hides the incline" in their plot of Moberg 2005. CO2 Coalition says from this that "this chart by Moberg et al is a multi-proxy paleo temp...

If you spend much time on social media discussing climate science, you're likely to come across a graph that looks like the above. The argument associated with this will be that this graph shows that climate has been variable throughout the Holocene and modern warming is neither unprecedented nor unusual compared to other warming periods at other times during the Holocene. However, it would appear this graph is completely fake. There are multiple versions of this graph floating around the internet, and they conflict with each other, and some of them, like the one above claiming to be Greenland ice core data, are complete nonsense. Let's look at two common versions of this graph. Greenland Ice Core Versions Greenland ice core versions of this graph can be found promoted widely on the internet. The particular version above is unsourced, but based on what it presents, it can easily be seen to be faked. First, it claims to be ice core data from the Crete site in central Greenland, ...