{"id":20439,"date":"2026-02-21T09:41:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T17:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/?p=20439"},"modified":"2026-02-21T09:42:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T17:42:01","slug":"science-how-to-draw-misleading-charts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2026\/02\/21\/science-how-to-draw-misleading-charts\/","title":{"rendered":"Science: How to draw misleading charts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This image appears in a journal paper &#8211; do you see any problem with it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"645\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-343.png?wsr\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-343.png 645w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-343-600x580.png 600w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-343-279x270.png 279w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S2542519623000232\">Excess mortality attributed to heat and cold: a health impact assessment study in 854 cities in Europe &#8211; ScienceDirect<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carefully look at the X axis. Others redrew the chart with a constant x-axis, as it should be done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note how the original chart exaggerates high temperatures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"566\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/HBsdyyVaEAAt2Ky-1024x566.jpeg?wsr\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/HBsdyyVaEAAt2Ky-1024x566.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/HBsdyyVaEAAt2Ky-600x332.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/HBsdyyVaEAAt2Ky-768x425.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/HBsdyyVaEAAt2Ky-1536x849.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/HBsdyyVaEAAt2Ky-2048x1132.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/HBsdyyVaEAAt2Ky-488x270.jpeg 488w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As previously, a good argument rests on facts and logic &#8211; not on deception. This is not how to do climate communications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting use of a changing x-axis to deliver a false perspective. It&#8217;s Just Science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cherry-picking","category-climate-communications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20442,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20439\/revisions\/20442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}