"I'm confused. Surely the IPCC graph you are comparing against Scandinavian temps is for all of Northern Europe - that's why it's called "NEU"? It is positioned over Scandinavia, certainly, but the only other graph the IPCC shows for Europe on the map from which this graph comes, is placed over the Mediterranean and is called "SEM". I presume, therefore, that "SEM" is the temp graph for Southern Europe and the Med, and "NEU" is the graph for all of Northern Europe, including the British Isles, Germany, Poland, the Baltic States, European Russia, the Netherlands, Northern France, etc etc - not just Scandinavia. What is the point in comparing this with the graph for Scandinavia? Why would anyone expect them to be the same? And besides, the (very rough) IPCC graph DOES show a cooling in the relevant period, especially between c1950 & c1980, though unsurprisingly different to that in Scandinavia alone. As far as I know, nobody has ever pretended that there was no cooling in the Northern Hemisphere in the years after 1940 - indeed it is a subject that has been much discussed, and very publicly.
I don't really understand what the problem is here? Can anyone enlighten me?"
I don't really understand what the problem is here? Can anyone enlighten me?"
