Exactly! Think of how many government grants were produced as a result of the “hockey stick” graph — fraudulently produced from manufactured data. Had there been no fraudulent dramatic upswing in temperatures, there would have been no need for more research.
Actually, see my earlier posting. The hockey-stick graph was produced with an incorrect or fraudulent model.
It didn't matter what data you put into it: it still generated a hockey stick. Even random data generated that result.