<i>Well, that and asking how the analysis would look if they didn&#x27;t throw away all the 250 years of data in the middle.</i><p>Fortunately they did present the full data in the paper (top graph is Japan, bottom Europe): <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;article-assets&#x2F;npg&#x2F;srep&#x2F;2016&#x2F;160426&#x2F;srep25061&#x2F;images_hires&#x2F;w926&#x2F;srep25061-f1.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;article-assets&#x2F;npg&#x2F;srep&#x2F;2016&#x2F;160426&#x2F;sr...</a><p>Even though they omitted it while drawing the trend lines.