CSIRO’s Nature Trick

Check out this sea level graph from CSIRO, which is constructed to deceive the reader.

:: Sea-level Rise :: CSIRO & ACECRC 

Note that the satellite trend since 1992 is much steeper than the tide gauge trend, but they did two tricks to fool gullible people into believing otherwise.

1. They truncated the tide gauge data at 2009, during a small uptick.
2. They smeared a blue error bar above the satellite data, and did not provide an error bar for the satellite trend.

Their intent was create the impression that sea level rise rates have increased since 1992, which is not true and a blatant attempt to deceive the reader.

h/t to T.O.O. for being one of the gullible people who fell for their trick. Here is the graph with the trends projected to 2030. Also note that we are well below the 1930 to 1960 trend line.