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Acrylic painting on Alupanel Ms. Irma, IPCC scientist. Seer reading the future in a crystal ball. IPCC: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. — Torture the numbers, they will eventually confess Long sets of climate data have biases. Biases are systematic errors due to imperfections in the instrumental arrangement and / or the unsuitable conditions in which the evaluation or measurement takes place. The obsessive search for the anthropogenic signal in climate data leads to an equally formidable bias. The confirmation bias that prompts you to constantly look for reasons to continue to believe what you already believe. During a conference given at the Bureau des Longitudes on October 7, 2009. Pierre Morel, founder of the dynamic meteorology laboratory (CNRS), speaks with humor of how cognitive biases and instrumental biases add up. “We see a gradual warming which amounts to 0.6 ° C in a century. But on this 0.6 ° C in a century, there are 0.4 which are corrections made to compensate for the defects of the measuring devices!