Let me use your reply as an opportunity to make points I've made in a heated fashion elsewhere on this thread more calmly:<p>1. It's not clear that CET is a proxy for global temperatures.<p>2. If CET is a good proxy (and that could be easily checked from the Met Office data) then fast warming in the past needs to be explained to be sure that we are seeing something anomalous now.<p>3. This Daily Telegraph claims that man-made global warming is refuted by the CET.  I don't believe that to be true.  It may be questioned by the data, but questioning is within the realms of science.<p>4. The original blog posting makes the claim "since we've seen 30 years of warming in the past that are faster than the last 30 years of warming there's nothing to worry about".  The last part is not correct.  If this is correct (modulo #1) then we need to determine what was causing warming in the past compared to today.