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All IPCC definitions taken from Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Working Group I Contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Annex I, Glossary, pp. 941-954. Cambridge University Press.
The initial set of FLICC icons were created in 2014/2015 while putting together our free online course Making Sense of Climate Science Denial. An essential part of the MOOC is explaining how various climate myths use certain fallacies to distort the science. Since then, John Cook has extended the FLICC taxonomy with many more fallaciesand it'll grow further as time goes by. Learn more about the fallacies listed in this graphics category in the blog post A history of FLICC: the 5 techniques of science denial.