Making a history was not what I wanted to do. I wanted to construct something more powerful than … - Claude Lanzmann

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I know there is pressure to present a nice tidy story as regards 'apparent unprecedented warming in a thousand years or more in the proxy data' but in reality the situation is no quite so simple.

Claude Lanzmann

Making a history was not what I wanted to do. I wanted to construct something more powerful than that

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