(cold northern) CLIMATIC MATTERS

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3.  The long-term temperature trends at all stations showed well-defined cyclic variations - this is a most important conclusion.  The typical period of the temperature cycles is about 80 years which meant that most of the stations analysed showed only one cycle.  In general terms, it is seen from the graphs, that temperatures were increasing prior to about 1930.  From about 1930 until about 1970 temperatures were either relatively stable or decreased.  From about 1970 temperatures have generally increased.  It should be noted that the rate of temperature increase in the 1920s was quite often similar to that recorded in the 1990s - deja vu!  The obvious conclusion is that we (if we are "cold northerners"!) may be close to a natural cyclical peak and that temperatures may soon stabilise or even decrease.