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Sunday, May 10, 2026

Video falsely claims scientists exaggerated 'hockey stick' climate chart - Yahoo Philippines News

A speaker in a video viewed hundreds of thousands of times on social media claims scientists removed data from a graph to exaggerate global warming. This is false; the chart includes global data that make regional warming stand out less, and such periods do not disprove human-caused climate change.

"Randall Carson, a man with 40+ years experience in the climate field, calls out the climate change hoax," says a September 18, 2022 tweet. It links to a video that mentions a climate-change chart known as the "hockey stick".

Climate skeptics have been attacking the "hockey stick" for years -- but numerous subsequent studies replicated its findings and the US National Academy of Sciences endorsed it.

The post had been retweeted nearly 8,000 times as of October 7, 2022, and the video it shares had amassed more than 280,000 views. The clip was also posted on video sharing platforms YouTube, Rumble, Bitchute and Odysee.

Screenshot of a tweet taken October 7, 2022

The speaker is Randall Carlson, who sells video workshops about "Sacred Geometry" online and releases podcasts about cosmography.

In the video, Carlson says temperatures were higher in the "Medieval warm period" than they are now, implying these past fluctuations disprove the fact that human-caused carbon emissions are driving global warming.

As evidence, he cites past reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and its "hockey stick" chart -- a line graph that shows a sharp rise in temperatures since...



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