The Associated Press reported on stories using an out-of-context graph from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to falsely claim that the Earth's climate is cooling, not warming.

The graph shows spikes and drops in temperature over the past 9,500 years, charting how much higher or lower each year’s temperatures are than the average temperature over the entire time period.

There are different ways to create a temperature-time graph for melting ice. In this required practical activity it is important to: measure and observe the change in temperature accurately use ...

A graph shows Greenland ice core data from before 1885, not global temperature change over the last 9,500 years ...